Quotes About Inspiration

Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching?

You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.

When a child grows old enough to know J.R.R. Tolkien was just staring at a typewriter, the truth can be a wounding exposé.

I'm just some fingers resting lightly on a cursor as it slides magically around a kind of Ouija board.

Don't let people tell you your ideas are stupid. If you're really passionate about something, find a way to build it.

The Book of Revelation wages war on the reductionism that chokes awe.

Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition. ("Talking In The Dark")

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.

Creativity is an ability given to us at birth, and thankfully, it cannot be lost. Creativity only goes into hiding and lies dormant from lack of

invention became

None of us knows the strength and the power of our lights. These lights shine brightest when they brighten the paths of others. I will be a point of light and light the paths of others.

I can become great by developing an attitude of greatness.

When he finished his talk, I ran up to the front of the room, introduced myself, and just blurted out, "You're talking about it, I'm doing it! Let's get together! This is fantastic!" Minutes later, I just ran. I ran outside on pure adrenaline and threw up in the parking lot.

As Stephen Spender put it, "Music is the most powerful of all the idealist drugs except religion.

There's a better way. There has to be education, and the education has to come from the poets and musicians, because it has to touch the heart rather than the intellect, it has to get in there deeply.

It's your living room, it's your life, go nuts. You like Home Improvement ? Tape it and go over it like it's the Zapruder film.

Dennis Miller

Learn the writer's craft, write regularly, grow to love the practice for its own sake-and inspiration will either come on a particular day or it won't, but you'll have prepared the way for it.

With writers, it's frequently the same. We all want faith to win out over doubt.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

One bold era in the life of an individual can change the course of civilization.