Creativity is in the heart of the dreamer.

The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it.

How can we know the dancer from the dance? Did Yeats create his poems, or did his poetry make him a poet? How does one separate the creator from hiscreation? They create each other. On a mutual plane of reference, one has no existence without the other.

THE Biggest enemy of Truth is known as Facts in our Society

A lie near to truth is always difficult to catch

All good work requires self-revelation.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Two powerful factors which creates difference between destroying your relationship and deepening it are EGO and Attitude

The larger the audience the better. The more pockets in the world, the more interesting and exciting because it just makes it that much more liberating. This makes it that much more liberating for the various facets of creativity to be explored.

I have to give it up and I have to grow up.” But the truth is that I can never give it up and that’s another thing that I always tell people, especially young people: don’t even bother thinking that you’re going to give up whatever your art or your creative thing is. It’s always...

We want to get it done as quickly and inexpensively with as much creativity and flexibility as we can have.

I will not stop singingthe Muses who set me dancing.

When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.

To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head – and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It’s an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that’s not...

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.

The novelist defines the story with the following example: If you are told that the king died and then the queen died, that is a sequence of events. If you were told that the king died and then the queen died of grief, that is a story that he was interested.

So many forms of creativity together in one spot. It’s beautiful.

Spend more time doing things that make you forget about the time.

I’m never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved.

When you have wit of your own, it’s a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

Creativity is an endless source that comes from above, from the most high source of creation[God].

When I think of normality I think of mediocrity

the battle for our culture must be waged at the level of the imagination.

Unless social sciences can be as creative as natural science, our new tools are not likely to be of much use to us.

If critics say your work stinks it’s because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered “dangerous” but set in place in their compartmental understandings.

To lose focus means to lose energy. The absolutely wrong thing to attempt when we’ve lost focus is to rush about struggling to pack it all back together again. Rushing is not the thing to do… Patience, peace and rocking renew ideas. Just holding the idea and the patience to rock it are what some...

They spell-caught the sounds of cat paws, the breath of fish, the spittle of birds, the hairs of a woman’s beard, and the roots of a mountain, and spun them around the sinews of a bear. That made a bond that looked as fine as a ribbon of silk, but, since it was made of...

I’m not trying to tell you,” he said “that only educated men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It’s not so.But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they’re brilliant and creative to begin with–which, unfortunately, is rarely the case–tend to leave infinitely more valuable records behind them than men...

Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.

What do you really want?Did you know that every single one of your desires is an expression of your soul’s longing to experience human life as you? It’s true.These pure impulses get filtered through our conditioning and show up distorted at times, but follow them back to their source and nothing you desire is anything...

The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

It wakes us right up.

Never regret losing time on reading good books

Creating a better futureRequires creativity in the present.

So the key is doing something that sets you apart forever in the minds of regular people.Something that matters.

Envy won’t make you a better poet.

Trying to teach creativity is the major hoax of our time along with the Iraq war and plastic surgery” ~ Snarky comment of Clive from “The River Swimmer” (pg 47)

If there are no new ideas, there is no innovation. And if there is no creativity, there are no new ideas.

One of your most powerful inner resources is your own creativity. Be willing to try on something new and play the game full-out.

Innovation is creativity with a job to do.

My first thought, as a child, was that the artist brings something into the world that didn’t exist before, and that he does it without destroying something else. A kind of refutation of the conservation of matter. That still seems to me its central magic, its core of joy.

I believe when we’re able to fully own and express ourselves, we are able to tap into a creative power deeply rooted from our sexual energy – which is our creative energy. We’re so sexually loose, and also sexually strained. We don’t understand the creative power we have because we’re so busy using it in...

Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.

Creation, in all its forms, is where I find beauty. If I could travel as far outward as I have inward, I would know with the utmost conviction that distance does not exist.

Writing has become more than just a profession, and hobby…it has become a way to express my feelings and pour my entire soul into the pages of my books. Thank God for the little things in life that makes us feel infinite and tranquil…the little things that make way for us to escape reality and...

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

poetry’s favourite moment is when one loses one’s footing because of a landslide or seismic shaking of thought

A Gift for YouI send you…A cottage retreat on a hill in Ireland. This cottage is filled with fresh flowers, art supplies, and a double-wide chaise lounge in front of a wood-burning fireplace. There is a cabinet near the front door, where your favorite meals appear, several times a day. Desserts are plentiful and calorie...

If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it. . . . for me, every act of art is the act of solving a mystery.