Quotes About Inspiration

What light through yonder window breaks?

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.

I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a light better than any light that ever shone - in a land no one can define, or remember, only desire

Dreams they come and go, but thoughts like love will always grow.

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

For did my dreams come true when I looked at you. And maybe too, if you would believe, you too might be overjoyed, over loved, over me.

Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

When you're young, everything seems like a romance. At 96, I can still feel romantic about publishing young unknown writers.

Suddenly I found you and the spirit in me sings, Don't have to look no further, You're the soul of many things.

May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

I live in the realm of romantic possibility.

It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.

You make me want to be a better man.

That to me is the way any good romantic would look at his life: Live it first, then write it down before you go.

Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound romantic, but that's how it feels.

All my romantic stories are a scrambled version of that first one.

It's a romantic notion that you're going to have one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great... but the execution and delivery are what's key.

I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

I cried today. I wasn't sad. You showed me beauty that I had only seen in books and dreams. I now see it in you.

Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes.

happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.