Quotes About Inspiration

The ancestor of every action is a thought. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them. It draws the children from their play, the old from their arm-chairs, the invalid from his warm chamber: it holds the hearer fast; steals away his feet, that he shall not depart; his memory, that he shall not remember the most pressing affairs; his belief, that he shall not admit any opposing considerations.

Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.

This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that, if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for Being; Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!

In the words of a great writer, we find our own neglected thoughts.

Whilst thus the poet animates nature with his own thoughts, he differs from the philosopher only herein, that the one proposes Beauty as his main end; the other Truth.

The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-pulling, but guiding, instructive, and inspirational--a south wind and not an east wind.

All my good is magnetic, and I educate, not by lessons, but by going about my business.

Non essere spinto dai tuoi problemi. Lasciati guidare dai tuoi sogni.

Every artist was first an amateur

Life is too short to waste In critic peep or cynic bark, Quarrel or reprimand: 'Twill soon be dark; Up, heed thine own aim, and God speed the mark!

En ese autoengaño, su genio deserta, su musa lo abandona. Se queda sin creatividad, sin esperanzas. Confía en ti mismo.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone

The true poem is the poet's mind; the true ship is the ship-builder.

He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread.

That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him

Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space

The great-eyed Plato proportioned the lights and shades after the genius of our life.

When an artist runs out of inspiration or a scholar wearies of books, they always have the ability to live. Character is more important than intellect. Life is primary; our thoughts about it are secondary.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

What is the right use of books? For inspiration. Books exist for your benefit, not you for theirs. Your most precious possession is your own soul. Better to never see a book than to have it pull you out of your orbit, so that your life now revolves around that book instead of around your own soul.

Dónde está el maestro que enseñó a Shakespeare? ¿Dónde el que enseñó a Franklin, a Washington, a Bacon, a Newton? Todo gran hombre es único.