If a teacher of literature desires to remove his subject from the uncreative methods he finds in use around him, he can only do so successfully by persuading trustees and college presidents that literature is an art and that it can only be taught through the methods and spirit and conditions that belong to art. "The Lost Art of Reading" by Gerald Stanley Lee

They manifold their being and their emotions because of a blind and uncreative yearning for the universal and infinity. "Paul Verlaine" by Stefan Zweig

To the musician, therefore, what has been said above is useless, if not worse; its object will have been attained if it aids the uncreative reader to criticise what he hears with more intelligence. "The Note-Books of Samuel Butler" by Samuel Butler