Quotes About Inspiration

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

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

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.

Thought is the seed of action.

You cannot burn out until you catch on fire

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

A leader of the business knows what to do. A leader of people knows how to get it done.

Escribir es que le dejen a uno llorar y reír a solas".

O livro é um pássaro com mais de cem asas para voar.

Era un pintor tan viejo que se le habían quedado calvos los pinceles. (He was such an old painter that his brushes had gone bald.)

La luna es un banco de metáforas arruinado.

La greguería es el género que se debe escribir en los bancos públicos, en los pretiles de los puentes, en las mesas de los cafés, al ir solos en los coches lentos que van acompañando a los entierros, en las mesas de las cocinas, en los fogones, etc.

The revelation or intuition arises in its own time and one must wait for it.

People such as inventors searching for new material, make their discoveries in a state of self-forgetfulness. It is in a condition of deep intellectual concentration that this forgetfulness of the ego arises and the invention is revealed. This is also a way of developing intuition.

All great talents are never found in rich exquisite locales with perfect setting that enhance their creative works, but on the contrary are found in the most obnoxious circumstances yet are unaffected by them and create masterpieces at the most unpredictable situations, just like a lotus flower blossoming in a muddy pond!

An artist is one who can see divinity in nudity!