What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease. |

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation. |

Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. |

Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again. |

Teamwork might work in building an amish barn, but it can't create a big idea. |

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. |

Hands, do what you’re bid:
Bring the balloon of the mind
That bellies and drags in the wind
Into its narrow shed. |

It was at that age that poetry came in search of me. |

Go into the Arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. |

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. |

Nothing comes from Nowhere. |

The first draft of anything is shit. |

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

I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong. |

Companies don’t have ideas. Only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds of loyalty and trust they develop around each other. |

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination. |

A year from now, you may wish you had started today. |

Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. |