honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.” Good to remember…

Creativity can impact some sort of “CHANGE” in the WORLD. But we must first embrace pure “DIFFERENCES” and work together for a common cause.

The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death,...

How my emotions starred as I played! During one of this tug-of-war contest between knowing right and doing wrong, I wrote the words to a song on my own for the first time.

Comparison is the enemy to creativity.

Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.

And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!

Successful continual learning means maintaining a balance and variety of success-oriented attributes, the most prominent being awareness, confidence, persistence, determination, courage, and focus. But curiosity, ingenuity, and creativity may be even more important as it...

Lies can open up the doors to imagination.

We shouldn’t let our envy of distinguished masters of the arts distract us from the wonder of how each of us gets new ideas. Perhaps we hold on to our superstitions about creativity in order...

To make a real independent film where the filmmaker is in charge creatively, one must sacrifice personal, financial, and physical well-being.

Life is a cracked surface at best. Fiction is a nice edifice. / every word/sentence/paragraph gives a writer an opportunity to reinforce or deliberately crack the edifice by screwing with meaning, structure, grammar, the fourth...

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the...

Strategy was first used in Athens (508 BC) to describe the art of leadership used by the ten generals on the war council. Some argue for the more creative, human side, while others argue for...

An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.

Waiting patiently for the fatest bone is a dog’s lifestyle.

If your looking to write a book, your creativity, originality and simplicity is what will distinguish you.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.

you cannot teach art—you cannot make a soul

If I ever conceive any original idea, it will be because I have been abnormally prone to confuse ideas … and I have thus found remote analogies and relations which others have not considered! Others...

You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write. It’s a vicious cycle.

Flair is what makes the difference between artistry and mere competence. Cmdr. William Riker

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.

As an observer of human nature, let’s just face the facts: stupid stuff sells, and often the more stupid and silly it is, the better it sells.

Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. … If we did not know we’d die, we’d wander around and sleep like cats.

Working with people is basically not a question of formal education; working with people is a question of energy and awareness. Everyone can basically work with people. It is a question of developing a presence...

The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when...

I don’t get writers block. I get writer has too many ideas and doesn’t know which one to start next, block.

I could not have believed beforehand that Calvinism could be painted in such exquisitely delightful colors.

And so it was that Michael built a brown castle on the peak of his mountain, Gabriel built a golden pyramid in the midst of his plain, saying it was both a holy temple in...

It is a burden…(M)ake no mistake about that. Any great gift or power or talent is a burden and this more than any, and you will long to be free of it. But there is...

I, sole heir to the Munodi line and memory, am childless. A friend who knows such things has told me that this explains my compulsion to capture what I can with black ink on white...

It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a much more attenuated landscape of media than ours, and their reward was that they could still believe, in...

Heart-mysteries there, and yet when all is saidIt was the dream itself enchanted me(“The Circus Animal’s Desertion”)

After two or three stanzas and several images by which he was himself astonished, his work took possession of him and he experienced the approach of what is called inspiration. At such moments the correlation...

What seems like the right thing to do could also be the hardest thing you have ever done in your life

Forget about being an expert or a professional, and wear your amateurism (your heart, your love) on your sleeve. Share what you love, and the people who love the same things will find you.

Creativity is a gift each one of us is born with, irrespective of our backgrounds and entitlement of culture, The challenge is to hold onto this gift as we go through life. To nurture it....

Creativity flourishes where there is freedom.

Magic is not just for the entertainment, but to inspire people to be creative enough with their lives.

It’s always going to be easy to live like others or other’s life, because creating or innovating something of own is always difficult in comparison to buying or borrowing anything from others.

It’s a struggle for me to remain open,” she admits. “To not shut down because I’m defensive or scared or maybe my ego is getting in the way. And the other side of that is...

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.

People ask me how to start writing. I tell them that ‘Creating Creates Creativity’. Put your notes and outline aside. Start with one anecdote or conversation, and that will lead to another and another. It’s...

I realized there really is a natural interplay between my spirituality and my creativity. When I enter into a spirit of prayer, I can cultivate a receptive space and actually ask God for creative ideas...

Originality has nothing to do with producing something ’ new’ – it is about seeking the source, the primordial ground from which you draw and have always drawn your being. It comes about when one...

He pressed bravely ahead with his story, the outlines and preliminary versions of which by now filled two thick notebooks, reorganizing, redrafting, and obsessively re-polishing lines and paragraphs with a jeweler’s precision.But it was not...

Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations – they are the most graceful media in which the...

Creativity connects me to my truest self and vulnerability. There is nothing more personally liberating, than reaching for my face and peeling off the social mask that hides my; shadow self, pain and weakness. When...