Quotes About Inspiration

Man hopes, genius creates

A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word just as good.

why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe? The sun shines to-day also. There

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.

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Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.

The true poem is the poet's mind; the true ship is the ship-builder. In the man, could we lay him open, we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work; as every spine and tint in the sea-shell preexist in the secreting organs of the fish.

Genius is the activity which repairs the decay of things.

the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. The

Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair.

If you would lift me you must be on higher ground. If you would liberate me you must be free. If you would correct my false view of facts, — hold up to me the same facts in the true order of thought, and I cannot go back from the new conviction.

Then [good manners] must be inspired by the good heart. There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty.

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm...Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.

A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If the singer sings from a sense of duty or from seeing no way of escape, I had rather have none.

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative man.

A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It

The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This

Genius is religious.

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.