Quotes About Inspiration

A good Book, has no Ending...

O sweet spontaneous earth

here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart) Edward Estlin Cummings

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is something valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch.

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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

though wish and world go down,one poem yet shall swim

here's to one undiscoverable guess of whose mad skill each world of blood is made (whose fatal songs are moving in the moon

if Clinton's answers come off as well-intended lectures, Obama is offering soaring sermons and generational opportunity. In 1960, the articulate Adlai Stevenson compared his own oratory unfavorably with John F. Kennedy's. Do you remember, Stevenson said, that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, 'How well he spoke,' but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, the people said, 'Let us march.' At this hour, Obama is the Democrats' Demosthenes.

spending more time with our children, and reading to them, and teaching them that while they may face challenges and discrimination in their own lives, they must never succumb to despair or cynicism; they must always believe that they can write their own destiny.

And why? Is our genius only in our wombs? Can we not write books and create learned scholarship and perform music and provide philosophical models for the betterment of mankind?

Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.

Writing teachers invariably tell students, write about what you know. That's, of course, what you have to do, but on the other hand, how do you know what you know until you've written it? Writing is knowing... I've had very little experience in my life. In fact, I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

And she understood as I did that when you sat down and put your hands on the keys, it was not just a piano in front of you, it was a universe.

In some way, every creative action disturbs the universe.

Something made me pull sounds out of my silence...

Mrs. Olinski was the first teacher Epiphany ever had who taught from a wheelchair.

When the sun came through the [stained-glass] windows, I felt that I was standing inside of God's kaleidoscope.

For the novelist or poet, for the scientist or artist, the question is not where do ideas come from, the question is how they come. The how is the mystery. The how is fragile.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

All scripture was written for us, and for our learning ; but they are not all addressed to us, or written concerning us.

God has spoken, at sundry times as well as in. diverse manners And if we are to understand what He has spoken we must learn to distinguish, not only the various peoples whom He has spoken, but the sundry times at which He has spoken to them, and also the. diverse manners.

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.