Quotes About Inspiration

Of all nations the United States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets and will doubtless have the greatest and use them the greatest. Their Presidents shall not be their common referee so much as their poets shall.

Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,)

He or she is greatest who contributes the greatest original practical example.

Stop this day and night with me, and you shall possess the origin of all poems

There is hardly a more admirable impulse in the human soul than patriotism.

And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men.

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it;

O captain! My captain!

Eu intreb:Cine e cel ce-a trecut inainte? Pentru eu vreau sa trec si mai inainte!

Diam dan kagum, ketika aku kecil, Aku ingat saat mendengar pendeta tiap hari Minggu memasukkan Tuhan ke dalam pernyataan, Walt Whitman

to great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives.

To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they work throughout their lives.

Do not write the conclusion of a work in your familiar study. You would not find the necessary courage there.

Reside en una iluminación profana, en una inspiración materialista, antropológica, para la que el hachís, el opio, o lo que sea, puede representar la escuela preparatoria.

desarrollar el arte de citar sin comillas hasta alcanzar el máximo nivel

In your working conditions avoid everyday mediocrity. Semi-relaxation, to a background of insipid sounds, is degrading. On the other hand, accompaniment by an etude or a cacophony of voices can become as significant for work as the perceptible silence of the night. If the latter sharpens the inner ear, the former acts as a touchstone for a diction ample enough to bury even the most wayward sounds.

The storyteller: he is the man who could let the wick of his life be consumed completely by the gentle flame that is his story.

61I am prepared to... assert that inspiration has something in common with a convulsion, and that every sublime thought is accompanied by a more or less violent nervous shock which has its repercussions in the very core of the brain.

Em consequência, o romance não é significativo por descrever pedagogicamente um destino alheio, mas porque esse destino alheio, graças à chama que o consome, pode dar-nos o calor que não podemos encontrar em nosso próprio destino. O que seduz o leitor no romance é a esperança de aquecer sua vida gelada com a morte descrita no livro.

Paris est la grande salle de lecture d'une bibliothèque que traverse la Seine.

Thinking is like a fountain. Once it gets going at a certain pressure, well, it almost impossible to turn it off. And, my hat! what odd things come up with the water! (Out Of The Deep)

Can you become The hope I need? Can you help me be More than it is written in my future Or past? Is there another me to find?

Many teens will see themselves in Myers' account.

the ideas I found in books helped me imagine a life I wanted to live.