Quotes About Inspiration

in my day, molay, a girl couldn't dream like that. But you, my namesake, you can be a doctor, or lawyer, or journalist—anything you imagine. We lit that lamp to light your path.

Well, Koshy Saar may not believe in God, but it's a good thing that God believes in that old man. Why else did he send him into your life?

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

Don't let someone stealing your quotes !

looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin, I suggested to Oscar Wilde that he should go a step further than these minor poets; he should publish a book all margin; full of beautiful, unwritten thoughts.

There are so many people who've come before us, arrows and wagon wheels, obsidian tools, buffalo. Look out at the meadow, you can almost see them, generations dissolved in the bluegrass and hay. I want to try and be terrific. Even for an hour.

What is it about noticing beauty that brings you out of yourself and returns you to yourself?

It turns out poetry does, in fact, do the thing I want it to do… it helps me return to the world, to experience it, to pay attention.

One question that I often get asked is how to overcome writer's block. And the funny thing is, I overcome it, by not overcoming it. I think it's okay to not write. I think it's okay not to talk, not to make, not to create, not to produce, produce, produce. How can we listen to the world if we are always talking to the world?

I want to try and be terrific. Even for an hour.

I like sunrises, Mondays, and new seasons. God seems to be saying,"with me you can always start afresh.

Write it down. Whatever it is, write it down. Chip in into marble. Type it into Microsoft Word. Spell it out in seaweeds on the shore. We are each of us an endangered species, delicate as unicorns.

My heart was full and uplifted; it seemed that in my soul the question arose whether such things as Art, literature, science encompassed and completed life or whether there was still something in the distance which encompassed it even more completely and filled it with a far greater happiness.

I reflect that all art, all beauty, is reflection.

and fi red.

So, if you do not believe in yourself and abilities, you will not take any action to improve your current situation. [...] To inspire yourself, you can recall memories when you were able to achieve goals or milestones. [...] Remind yourself that you have the knowledge and skills to realize your goals.

If Helen had the face that launched a thousand ships, Kelly would have made those guys invent aircraft carriers.

If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give good advice.

When you see a Gauguin, you think, This man is living in a dream world. When you see a van Gogh, you think, This dream world is living in a man.

Writers are married to their keyboards, as to their passports.

Writing well isn't just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in, of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.

Having a sense of security in one realm gives us the freedom to be original in another.

In the deepest sense of the word, a friend is someone who sees more potential in you than you see in yourself, someone who helps you become the best version of yourself. ?

Passionate people don't wear their passion on their sleeves; they have it in their hearts.