Quotes About Inspiration

I Am a lamp, so that you might see Me. I Am a path for you to travel.

There are really no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.

As your father keeps clean his lamp to have good light, so keep clean your spirit.

My business is anything that comes between men and the Spirit of God.

So with Dr. Johnson and John Stuart Mill, and Spencer, and William Shakespeare, and Chaucer, and Milton, and John Bunyan, and others of that royal company of bards, thanks to my father and Mr. Gruffydd, I was acquainted, more than plenty of other boys, and thus had a lasting benefit in school.

The beauty and music...It is a call...And some are not strong.

Passion is lifted from the earth itself by the muddy hands of the young; it travels along grass-stained sleeves to the heart. If we are going to save environmentalism and the environment, we must also save an endangered indicator species: the child in nature.

Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination.

That's my job; to bring adventure into your life.

Playing the violin or writing a poem are special ways of paying attention. They are acts at once small and great. Although only one person can commit them, they require orderly marshallings of countless and diverse forces, something like the great landing of armies in Normandy, but incalculably bigger and more complicated.

Why she hankered to be a teacher, I couldn't tell you. But she had chalk dust in her veins, and she deserved to get that certificate. It was only fair.

Never worry about a book corrupting a child. Worry if your children are not getting ideas from books.

The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you

We write by the light of every book we've read.

I read because one life isn't enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody.

But the difficulty of changing a typescript can also have what seems to be the opposite effect: You let go. You stop caring about certainty; you stop editing yourself, stop second-guessing yourself, and simply write—mistakes and all.

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. —RACHEL CARSON

Music is a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse.

Nobody's perfect, she liked to say. But, man, we all fall short so beautifully.

We are made for art . . . The moment Maddy took up the tendril phrase, Els knew she was as dear to him as his own life. Talons gripped his ribs, and he felt a joy bordering on panic. He needed to know how this woman would unfold. He needed to write music that would settle into her range like frost on fields. They'd spend their years together, grow old, get sick, die in shared bewilderment.

The moon is a blazing telephone that anyone on Earth might call him on, simply by looking up and seeing what he sees.

that human wisdom counts less than the shimmer of beeches in a

She lies awake at night, staring upward, remembering being right next to the only discovery that matters. Life was whispering instructions to her, and she failed to write them down.