Quotes About Inspiration

imagination WAS the eagle that devoured Prometheus!

Chi ama le idee non è destinato a morire di fame.

But least is he who, with enchanted eyes Filled with high visions of fair shapes to be, Muses which god he shall immortalize In the proud Parian's perpetuity, Till twilight warns him from the punctual skies That the night cometh wherein none shall see.

He hasn't written a line for twenty years. A line of what? What kind of literature can one keep corked up for twenty years? Wade surprised him. The real kind, I should say.

There are 2 ways of spreading light: to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.

Courage is about the most useful thing in an artist's outfit.

Me diste el primer atisbo de una vida verdadera, y al mismo momento me pediste que siguiera con una vida ficticia

Her books, and some inner source of life, had kept her warm.

even in his unhappiest moments field and sky spoke to him with a deep and powerful persuasion.

We ought with reverence to approach that tremendous divinity, that loves courage, but commands counsel.

A]rt can never give the rules that make an art.

Astonishment is the effect of the sublime in its highest degree, the inferior effects are admiration, reverence and respect.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. – Edmund Burke

A poet," he liked to say, "can do much more for his country than the proprietor of a nail factory.

Someone said a writer should read three times more than he or she writes.

Had he already inspired a passion in some stranger's heart?

Other writers, especially the ones you admire, can steer you to good books.

The poet must steal fire from the heavens.

Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death.

Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.

Although one might seem relatively gregarious, the real self is at the desk," she said. "It is a trial for relationships, for friendships. Every writer dreads losing the connection to the work, the momentum, and to keep it, you can't truly be sociable.

I tend not to look at the prison wall of life, but to look up at the sky, as it is more beautiful and more spacious. Try