Quotes About Inspiration

Great changes are coming. Great things are going to happen. I may not live to see them, but you will.

He stressed the importance of a liberal arts education but urged her to avoid all courses in writing. "Everyone has to find her own way of writing," he wrote Scottie, "and the source of finding it is largely out of literature." Scottie

Perkins's first piece of advice came from Hemingway, the only survivor of his great triumvirate of the twenties: "Always stop while you are going good. Then when you resume you have the impetus of feeling that what you last did was good. Don't wait until you are baffled and stumped.

The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart.

Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam.

You are braver then you believe, stronger then you seem, and smarter then you think.

It's only the beginning. Chase me if you like. Perhaps, if you remain interesting, I'll even let you catch me.

So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.

As soon as I saw you I knew a grand adventure was about to happen.

They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come.

You gave me Christopher Robin, and then You breathed new life in Pooh. Whatever of each has left my pen Goes homing back to you. My book is ready, and comes to greet The mother it longs to see -- It would be my present to you, my sweet, If it weren't your gift to me.

It is the best way to write poetry, letting things come." -Winnie-the-Pooh

One advantage of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries

Hallo, Pooh," said Rabbit. "Hallo, Rabbit," said Pooh dreamily. "Did you make that song up?" "Well, I sort of made it up," said Pooh. "It isn't Brain," he went on humbly, "because You Know Why, Rabbit; but it comes to me sometimes." "Ah!" said Rabbit, who never let things come to him, but always went and fetched them.

She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.

Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

But it isn't Easy,' said Pooh to himself.... 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you . And all you can do is to go where they can find you. He waited hopefully... [...] 'So there it is,' said Pooh, when he had sung this to himself three times. 'It's come different from what I thought it would, but it's come.

Du mußt nicht groß sein, um Großes zu vollbringen.

You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Passion points to purpose.

I have seldom written poetry unless I was rather out of health.

Just as great valorous deeds are the consequence of swords,' here he paused to snuff the candle with his fingers, 'so great philosophic thoughts are the consequence of pens.