source of creativity Quotes

If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often. It’s a mysterious condition. It’s much like the life of a Catholic nun. You’re married to a mystery.

What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.

One of the springs of poetry is joy.

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. It is the source of all true art and science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle.

The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question.

You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play.

I could never leave my home.... It inspires me a lot.

Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it.

If I knew where creativity came from, I'd probably be a lot less stressed about coming up with new stories.

Like every writer, I am asked where my work originates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find more.

Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when.

You never know when you'll come upon something and it's going to be fodder for new material.