Quotes About Inspiration

When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.

I have defined poetry as a 'passionate pursuit of the Real.

To be alive, to be man alive, to be whole man alive: that is the point. And at its best, the novel, and the novel supremely, can help you. It can help you not to be dead man in life.

Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor teaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning was not a Word, but a chirrup.

Do you think that creation depends on MAN! It merely doesn't. There are the trees and the grass and birds. I much prefer to think of the lark rising up in the morning upon a human-less world. Man is a mistake, he must go. There is the grass, and hares and adders, and the unseen hosts, actual angels that go about freely when a dirty humanity doesn't interrupt them—and good pure-tissued demons: very nice.

There is a sixth sense . . . that is the sense of wonder.

The human soul needs beauty more than bread.

Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.

She looked at her roses. They were white, some incurved and holy, others expanded in an ecstacy. The tree was dark as a shadow. She lifted her hand impulsively to the flowers; she went forward and touched them in worship.

Art-speech is the only truth.

Learning was the only distinction to which she thought to aspire.

She egged me on to poetry and reading: in a way, she made a man of me. I read and I thought like a house on fire, for her.

Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me!

If there weren't so many lies in the world ... I wouldn't write at all.

And out of a pattern of lies art weaves the truth.

Tentei incitá-los à vida, e eles incitaram-me à morte. É sempre o que acontece quando há compulsão. Recuar mata o progresso. Chegou o meu momento de estar só.

Even the real scientist works in the sense of wonder. The pity is, when he comes out of his laboratory he puts aside his wonder along with his apparatus, and tries to make it all perfectly didactic.

Because mountains are high and broad, the way of riding the clouds is always reached in the mountains; the inconceivable power of soaring in the wind comes freely from the mountains

Awe is the feeling of being in the presence of something vast that transcends your current understanding of the world.

Around the world, we are most likely to feel awe when moved by moral beauty, the first wonder of life in our taxonomy.

A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind.

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arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.