Quotes On Creativity

Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character.

In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest.

The improv, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running.

The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or—the worst dread—you never had it at all.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.