Quotes About Inspiration

Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?

If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys.

That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with…making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself.

My pen shall heal, not hurt.

It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em, said Captain Jim. When I ponder on them seeds I don't find it nowise hard to believe that we've got souls that'll live in other worlds. You couldn't hardly believe there was life in them tiny things, some no bigger than grains of dust, let alone colour and scent, if you hadn't seen the miracle, could you?

She had a way of embroidering life with stars.

She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne.

You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?

Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth

Nobody is ever too old to dream. And dreams never grow old.

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new a day with no mistakes in it

Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

But Anne with her elbows on the window sill, her soft cheek laid against her clasped hands, and her eyes filled with visions, looked out unheedingly across city roof and spire to that glorious dome of sunset sky and wove her dreams of a possible future from the golden tissue of youth's own optimism. All the Beyond was hers, with its possibilities lurking rosily in the oncoming years — each year a rose of promise to be woven into an immortal chaplet.

I will keep faith, Walter, she said steadily. I will work ­and teach ­and learn ­and laugh, yes, I will even laugh ­through all my years, because of you and because of what you gave when you followed the call.

One can always find something lovely to look at or listen to,' said Anne.

Don't you feel as if you just loved the world on a morning like this?

There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

Look, do you see that poem?' she said suddenly, pointing.

Don't let a three-o'clock-at-night feeling fog your soul.

She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren.

I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment…

Imagination is what you need.

Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.