Quotes About Inspiration

To have great poets, there must be great audiences, too.

I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul.

The glories strung like beads on my smallest sights and hearings, on the walk in the street and the passage over the river.

This day before dawn I ascended a hill and looked at the crowded heaven.

Do anything, but let it produce joy.

Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.

By living, thinking, even dreaming the story in one continuous process, ideas came faster and faster. Sometimes the typewriter keys would fly so fast that I wondered if my fingers could keep up with them. And at the finish of the story I often had to take a few days off as my fingertips were too sore to begin work on the next book.

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.

Writing is a form attention and trains the writer's attention to find images and stories.

There are so many poetic styles and ways to write a poem. I can hardly say that I've consciously chosen a particular style, but more that I've just found myself writing and then started accumulating reasons why I was writing the way I was.

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Fiction is an Art, and, like all other Arts, that it is governed by certain laws, methods, and rules, which it is their first business to learn.

prophetic preaching can take place only where the preacher is deeply embedded in the YHWH narrative.

3. There is a text in its boldness. There is a congregation, perhaps reduced and diminished by fatigue. Third, there is this specific occasion for speech.

Clearly, human transformative activity depends upon a transformed imagination. Numbness does not hurt like torture, but in a quite parallel way, numbness robs us of our capability for humanity.

The least of us is improved by the things done by the best of us, because if we are not able to land at least we are able to follow. (July 20, 1969 CBS Moon Landing Coverage)" ? Walter Cronkite

The least of us is improved by the things done by the best of us, because if we are not able to land at least we are able to follow. (July 20, 1969 CBS Moon Landing Coverage)

I know well that only the rarest kind of best can be good enough for the young.

We are *all* we are, and all in a sense we care to dream we are. And for that matter, anything outlandish, bizarre, is a godsend in this rather stodgy life. It is after all just what the old boy said – it's only the impossible that's credible; whatever credible may mean...

No matter what...ball made my heart beat faster, made me want to jump up and down and be Superman. That's what life was about anyway, being Superman and living like life itself was important. Basketball made my life important.