“The difficulty with writing a play is not in writing it, but in getting it produced.”

Capturing the practical obstacles that can stand between artistic creation and public recognition · Creative Power

• Creation
• Theatre
• Writing

“Children are creative persons, not scholiasts; they use language as the artist the world over has used his medium, not as an end in itself but as a means for the expression of thought and feeling.”

Language as a tool of feeling rather than a school subject · Book, Creative Power

• Art
• Children
• Language

“Poetry is when you talk to yourself.”

Verse as private speech overheard on the page · Chapter heading, Creative Power

• Poetry
• Self
• Speech