Quotes About Inspiration

The stars and the rivers and waves call you back.

L'arte, che col suo pregio dona ogni dolcezza ai mortali, spesso fece sì che anche l'incredibile diventasse credibile.

Be a model and don't wait to be modeled

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

He who would be a writer, fine, Must take a deal of pains, Must criticize his every line, And mix his ink with brains.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

There is always something new out of Africa.

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it.

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.

Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line.

It is not true that the world is too tired and exhausted to produce anything worth praising.

Next to this, we must consider the soul receiving its beauty from intellect

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. "For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.

Whereas stories are fit for every place, reach to all persons, serve for all times, teach the living, revive the dead, so far excelling all other books, as it is better to see learning in Noblemen's lives, than to read it in Philosophers' writings.