Quotes About Inspiration

Plain and simply, a love lyric is one's soul set in motion. If it's good, it may do the same to you.

It's a maddening thing in itself to look at an old poem of yours." —

No poem is ever written for its story line's sake only, just as no life is lived for the sake of an obituary. - Joseph Brodsky

un romanzo o una poesia sono il prodotto di una reciproca solitudine – quella di uno scrittore e quella di un lettore.

Il poeta, ripeto, è il mezzo di cui la lingua si serve per esistere. O, come ha detto il mio amato Auden, è colui in cui e per cui la lingua vive.

Let me have clear thoughts, clear speech, and a good path to walk this day," I prayed as I watched the rising sun.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.

Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted.

Writer's block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.

Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.

If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.

How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. (92)

Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or you can write it in the way of the exquisite nuance that is sriting in your mind now. But that takes a lot of ... waiting for the right word to come.

When you follow your bliss...doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.

For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us...

The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.

Follow your inner heart and the world moves in and helps.

Awe is what moves us forward.

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something; it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out.

I don't think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.