William Wordsworth Quotes on Creativity
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Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose types of things through all degrees.
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Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
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A cheerful life is what the Muses love, A soaring spirit is their prime delight.
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What is a Poet?...He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the Universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them.
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Lost in a gloom of uninspired research.