Henry David Thoreau Quotes

It's an honor when someone writes for you. That means they can hear your voice in their head.

And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.

Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea.

I don't presume to describe myself as a creator anymore, but I certainly love the process, and I hope I can do a lot of great things for the talent who are in and around DC.

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

I truly believe that everyone can be creative; you just need to find your form of expression.

A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.

You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.

Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.

Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.

Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don’t understand but something I’m able to harness and use. While electricity remains a mystery, I know I can plug into it and light up a cathedral or a synagogue or an operating room and use it to help save a life. Or I can use it to electrocute someone. Like electricity, creativity makes no judgment. I can use it productively or destructively. The important thing is to use it. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use it, the more you have.

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.

The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.

I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing a lot.

I think if you're lucky enough to find a voice in whatever you do, that voice will come sneaking out no matter what.

A poem begins with a lump in the throat

...whenever there is inspiration...and enthusiasm...there is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is capable of.

People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.

We are born to create, and we can't help it. Why is that? Because God, the great Creator, is in us.

A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

n artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was never a verse made or a picture seen. This suggests that God is no more idle now than He was at the beginning, but that He is still and forever shaping the human chaos into the instruments and means of beauty.

Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.

Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse.

Creative power is mightier than its possessor.