Quotes About Inspiration

I once knew this guy. Went by the name ShakesSPHERE. Greatest writer who ever lived, only he never wrote anything down.

while they read and talked together, there was opened before them the great book wherein God has written, in the language of mountain, and tree, and sky, and flower, and brook, the things that make truly wise those who pause to read.

Strong students, like strong writers, will find the sustenance they must have. And strong students, like strong writers, will rise in the most unexpected places and times, to wrestle with the internalized violence pressed upon them by their teachers and precursors.

The Anxiety of Influence

[Poems] are necessarily about other poems; a poem is a response to a poem, as a poet is a response to a poet, or a person to his parent.

We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.

It is hard to go on living without some hope of encountering the extraordinary.

Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it.

The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.

A story is like a feather blowed around by the wind. Some folks see that feather and say, "Oh, there's a feather," that's all. One day a man pick that feather up and weave it into his gbo, the thing that protect his house from bad spirits. The same way with a story. One day a man picks it up and makes it his own. Then it is true.

If you don't wake up at three in the morning and want to do something, you're wasting your time.

Picasso has been many times quoted as saying good artists copy, great artists steal.

Steve Jobs in 1996. I like to think that we may begin with imitation, graduate to emulation, and then aspire to creation.

haiku were not written to be weighed down with commentary. (Buson, p. 103)

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

From "boyhood up," as Lincoln once confided to his old friend Ward Hill Lamon, "my ambition was to be President.

Abraham Lincoln

At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts.

What would music, art, poetry, or literature be without emotion?

They call it music, but it's just this side of magic.

A Seed for Contemplation: Creative people who cherish the gift of life often slip into the secret chambers of the creative mind. Their solutions are well-rounded, more sensible than those of people who rely solely upon reason as their mainstay. Gratitude unseals fountains of creativity, because a grateful person is relaxed. This allows him to take stock of his circumstances with an objective mind. A creative person often gets three-dimensional answers to his problems. —

Our dreams are the forgotten path to Heaven.

It's about freedom, joy, and wisdom. It's all about divine love.

We are the messiah for somebody if not for everybody.