Quotes About Inspiration

In Yuri's early years of activism, [Mae] Mallory served as an important political mentor. Not only did Mallory have a visible leadership role, usually reserved for men, she also, remarked Yuri, 'taught me how to be a good Movement person. She was always on time, responsible & reliable, accurate in giving out information, and she wanted other people to be the same.

Activists from all over the world--the known & the unknown--would find their way to the Kochiyamas' Fri & Sat night open houses. 'People were everywhere, eating, talking, laughing, spilling out into the hallway [outside their apt]. People were even int he bathroom. You couldn't close the front door bc there were so many people inside,' recalled Herman Ferguson. The Kochiyamas' apt also became a central meeting place for the Movement.

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Warren Hirsh graciously answered my endless questions. Thank you to my brother

Richards and Maureen Sherbondy, also contributed their ideas at various points in the story, as did my sister, Joann Scanlon, and my assistant

Poets speak truth when no one else can or will. That's why the hunger for poetry grows when the world grows dark. When repression grows, when people speak in whispers or not at all, they turn to poetry to find out what's going on.

It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the world in their own image. ---Carl

All the drawing lacks is the final touch: To add eyes to the dragon

The man who heard the land was not farming, was not hunting, was not gathering wood for the log pile beside the house, but was an ordinary man driving on a highway, and the car stopped, and he heard the land. He thought it might have been the wind he heard, but knew it was the land. He couldn't understand the words, but he knew the land was speaking.

The trees were a seed inside a sail. In the piano music he heard the land; dust on a road, the sun sinking behind earth, the moon in the dark sky, a field of water after rain. It was as if the land gave him an awareness. It was an augmentation or development of some part of himself.

I don't believe that we have any choice about our dreams. I believe they simply come to us, like head colds and bad habits.

My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.

Beautiful makes you come back for more. It makes you ask questions. It's vast, unknowable, and magnificent. That's part of its power. It makes you think about the experience it's giving you. That's when I knew what I wanted. I've been chasing it ever since.

No one can predict who is going to touch your heart in a way that changes your very being.

you get down the stairs. It helps you get up in the morning. It's a way of life. Without it you're nobody.

I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world.

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

I like the feeling of being about to confront an experience and resolve it as art. —Eudora Welty

Why should a poem please even a majority of readers or listeners? Perhaps someone needs the particular poem that you wrote. You probably do, at any rate.

The poem is smarter than the poet and more rebellious. A strong poem will override its author's initial intentions.

Having something to say is a curse; having an ax to grind is deadly. But everything makes poetry happen.

But artists didn't need to achieve "firsts", and Hughes wanted to be an artist.

The Victorian era produced more Victorian writers than any other period in history.

Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.