Quotes About Inspiration

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.

A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.

True change takes place in the imagination.

I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.

I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope, That star on life's tremulous ocean.

The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.

If of a number of shreds of his sentences he can shape an oration, from all the world hee carries it awaie, although in truth it be no more than a fooles coat of many coulours. No inuention or matter haue they of theyr owne, but tacke vp a stile of his stale galimafries. The leaden headed Germanes first began this, and we Englishmen haue surfetted of their absurd imitation. I pittie Nizolius that had nothing to doe, but picke thrids ends out of an olde ouerworne garment.

Destiny never defames herself but when she lets an excellent poet die.

Each of those churches shows certain books, which they call revelation, or the Word of God. The Jews say that their Word of God was given by God to Moses face to face; the Christians say, that their Word of God came by divine inspiration; and the Turks say, that their Word of God (the Koran) was brought by an angel from heaven. Each of those churches accuses the other of unbelief; and, for my own part, I disbelieve them all.

for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.

Thomas Paine

Fapt este ca termenul "profet", caruia epocile ulterioare i-au atribuit un nou sens, era cuvantul biblic penru "poet", iar cuvantul a "profeti" insemna arta de a face poezie. Insemna, de asemenea, arta de a interpreta poezie dupa melodia oricarui instrument muzical.

The belief that every human soul was the child of God, and capable of direct inspiration from the Father of all, without mediator or priestly intervention, or sacramental instrumentality, was fatal to all privilege and rank.

One who fails to solve a problem in his waking hours lies down to sleep, and in the dream state the unconscious is able to make known the solution which it has already worked out.

We have to confess that one man manifests more of the divine life than another, because he furnishes, consciously or otherwise, a better channel through which the divine life may flow. He has more avenues of expression, and is able to keep them open, and hence is a better medium through which the divine life may speak.

There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working.

Question asked of Thomas Perry. What is the most important thing that you have learned in your writing experience, so far? "If any writer is going to be remembered after he's gone, it will be for the parts of his work that are absolutely original, and would never have existed if he hadn't written them. So if you're writing a scene that you've read, watched, or heard before, then you're wasting your time and your reader's.

Shall I project a world?

You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.