Quotes About Inspiration

Poets to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to-day is to justify me and answer what I am for, But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known, Arouse! for you must justify me. I myself but write one or two indicative words for the future, I but advance a moment only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness.

I conn'd old times, I sat studying at the feet of the great masters, Now if eligible O that the great masters might return and study me.

If he breathes into anything that was before thought small, it dilates with the grandeur and life of the universe.

The youth lies awake in the cedar-roof'd garret and harks to the musical rain

The words of true poems are the tuft and final applause of science.

Of all races and eras these States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets

Their Presidents shall not be their common referee so much as their poets shall.

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me? (I think they hang there winter and summer on those trees and always drop fruit as I pass;)

A great poem is no finish to a man or woman but rather a beginning.

they may prove well in lecture-rooms, yet not prove at all under the spacious clouds and along the landscape and flowing currents.

Here is what sings unrestricted faith.

And I will not make a poem nor the least part of a poem but has reference to the soul, Because having look'd at the objects of the universe, I find there is no one nor any particle of one but has reference to the soul.

The greater the reform needed, the greater the personality you need to accomplish it.

Keep your face always toward the sun and the shadows fall behind you

The instincts of the American people are all perfect, and tend to make heroes.

In poems or in speeches I say the word or two that has got to be said, adhere to the body, step with the countless common footsteps, and remind every man and woman of something.

A leitura está cheia de aromas.»

Quédate hoy conmigo, vive conmigo un día y una noche y te mostraré el origen de todos los poemas. Tendrás entonces todo cuanto hay de grande en la Tierra y en el Sol (existen además millones de soles más allá) y nada tomarás ya nunca de segunda ni de tercera mano, ni mirarás más por los ojos de los muertos, ni te nutrirás con el espectro de los libros.

Love is the cause of causes

You think it would be good to be the writer of melodious verses, Well it would be good to be the writer of melodious verses;

Of all races and eras these States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets, and are to have the greatest, and use them the greatest, Their Presidents shall not be their common referee so much as their poets shall.

Te, olvasó: az élet, a dicsÅ'ség, a szerelem lázában égsz, mint én, Legyenek tehát a tiéid e dalok.

And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles.

Sem munkát-megtakarító gépet nem alkottam, Sem felfedezésem nincsen, Sem gazdag örökséget nem hagyok kórház, vagy könyvtár alapítására, Sem bátor tettek emlékét Amerika szolgálatában, Sem szellemi, sem irodalmi sikert, sem könyvet a könyves-polc számára, Csupán a levegÅ'ben hullámzó néhány dalom marad itt, Társaknak és szerelmeseknek.