Alfred de Musset Quotes

No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.

No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.

There's something in us that lives just beyond our normality - and I think we've all got a song in us. If only we could master that tiny muscle and make it sound listenable.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter.

I don't feel so alive if I'm not being creative.

Tracey Emin's 'Strangeland' made me see that everything I have to be creative is inside of myself.

Everyone is creative, but we are only as creative as we allow ourselves to be.

Nebraska people have the heart and power to create real beauty and art if they will only wake up and do it.

I feel like kids don't dream big enough. With art being taken out of school, it's important to know you can create as well.

I feel that my work comes alive all the time.

Look at the great athletes, musician, artists, and writers. They all tap into a source. Some call that source God or soul or spirit or consciousness. The Seven Faces of Intention: creativity, kindness, love, beauty, expansion, abundance, and receptivity. And all seven are expressions of what I imagine that source to look like. The very fact that we exist is proof to me that the nature of that source is creative at its core. And there isn't a person reading this who does not have a gnawing sense inside that there's something they're here to do, something creative.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. Say yes, stay alive, be awake. Just write. Just write. Just write.

There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.

Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.

I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.

To love is to transform; to be a poet.

If you're alive, you're a creative person.

I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.

Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.

There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

If you are silent through meditation, utterly silent, suddenly you feel a tremendous urge to create something.