Quotes About Inspiration

Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

For you need imagination to form a notion of beauty at all, and still more to discover your ideal in an unfamiliar shape.

The beauty of the loved woman exists in the beauties of Nature.

He inspired uneasiness. That was it! Uneasiness. Not a definite mistrust—just uneasiness—nothing more. You have no idea how effective such a... a... faculty can be.

I said; 'his example too. Yes, his example. I forgot that.' 'But I do not. I cannot—I

One writes only half the book; the other half is with the reader.

There must be a wonderful soothing power in mere words since so many men have used them for self-communion. Being

Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of its own inspiration, is a trick worthy of humna perverseness which, after inventing an absurdity, endeavours to find for it a pedigree of distinguished ancestors...

Each station should be like a beacon on the road towards better things, a centre for trade of course, but also for humanizing, improving, instructing.

Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

This is why the attainment of proficiency, the pushing of your skill with attention to the most delicate shades of excellence, is a matter of vital concern.  Efficiency of a practically flawless kind may be reached naturally in the struggle for bread.  But there is something beyond—a higher point, a subtle and unmistakable touch of love and pride beyond mere skill; almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art—which is art.

One gets sometimes such a flash of inspiration, you know. I did say the right thing, though indeed he could not have been more irretrievably lost than he was at this very moment, when the foundations of our intimacy were being laid—to endure—to endure—even to the end—even beyond.

He was absurd to the point of inspiration.

you fellows had starved your imaginations to feed your bodies.

I could be eloquent were I not afraid you fellows had starved your imaginations to feed your bodies.

bearers of a spark from the sacred fire. What

He drew men towards him by what was best in them.' She looked at me with intensity. 'It is the gift of the great

At such times his thoughts would be full of valorous deeds: he loved these dreams and the success of his imaginary achievements.

we must judge men not so much by what they do, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to do. If a man has done enough, either in painting, music or the affairs of life, to make me feel that I might trust him in an emergency he has done enough.

It was with these feelings that I began the creation of a human being.

Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it.

Shakespeare gathered the fruitage of all who went before him, he has sown the seeds for all who shall ever come after him. He was the great intellectual ocean whose waves touch the continents of all thought.

INDISPENSABLE BOOKS Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Shakespeare and Goethe.

Joseph Devlin