Quotes About Inspiration

When you felt sad or angry or hopeless, a story could help. A story could lead you into a different world for a while.

But in a song or a tale, anything is possible

A story could lead you into a different world for a while. It might be a world where a foolish youngest son could turn into a brave and clever hero, or a beaten young woman could end up as a wise leader of folk. And when the story was ended and that world was gone, you still had the idea of it inside you. Like a flame that didn't go out even when the bad things rattled and swirled and screamed, and worse, oh, much worse, when they whispered and goaded and tormented.

Not all of us manage to find that spark. Not all of us keep it alive.

Even the most made up of stories has its roots in the truth. That one more so than many.

The flame burns in his spirit and he is not afraid.

With the rising of the sun we stirred, and woke, and readied ourselves to face the new day.

The world needs its bards and its philosophers. It also needs its warriors, its heroes, its bold voyagers.

When I saw the illustration a new idea came to me. Might it not be possible to have Satsuko's face and figure carved on my tombstone in the manner of such a Bodhisattva, to use her as the secret model for a Kannon or Seishi? After all, I have no religious beliefs, any sort of faith will do for me; my only conceivable divinity is Satsuko. Nothing could be better than to lie buried under her image.

El muchacho le explicó, como pronunciando un sermón, que el mundo de los hombres era vil y estaba lleno de mentiras. En él, solo el arte conducía a la vida verdadera y eterna, y él mismo era grande porque sabía lo que se encontraba más allá de las puertas del arte. La muchacha no podía dudar de la nobleza de sus palabras.

Apesar de sua vida ter sido de sofrimento e angústia, suas histórias nunca foram insuportáveis nem deprimentes. Tinham alicerces numa força moral que era o tempo todo alentadora.

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

Perhaps the act of writing is necessary only when nothing happens.

Se spune c? rima nu-?i atinge cre?terea complet?, decat dac? este stimulat?.

the idea was not at all extraordinary; like some windblown seed, it needed only a speck of ground and a drop of water to grow.

And who is it that gives you your strength? He who gives you your clear vision.

Manche von uns haben Lieblingsbücher, die sie nie gelesen haben. Manche sogar welche, die nie geschrieben wurden. Dieses hier ist eines von meinen, und deshalb schreibe ich es auf.

Eines Tages«, sagte sie, »fange ich Träume ein wie Schmetterlinge.« »Und dann?«, fragte er. »Lege ich sie zwischen die Seiten dicker Bücher und presse sie zu Worten.« »Was, wenn jemand immer nur von dir träumt?« »Dann sind wir beide vielleicht schon Worte in einem Buch. Zwei Namen zwischen all den anderen.«

One day, she said, I'll catch dreams like butterflies. And then what? he asked. Then I'll put them between the pages of big, fat books and press them until they're words. Suppose there's someone who never dreams of anything but you? Maybe then we're both words in a book. Two names among all the others.

the words were like gunpowder blasts, sparking me into thought and action.

If professional religious leaders cannot instruct us in mythological lore, our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role and bring fresh insight to our lost and damaged role.

We have seen that, like the weather, religion "does lots of different things." To claim that it has a single, unchanging, and inherently violent essence is not accurate. Identical religious beliefs and practices have inspired diametrically opposed courses of action.

In very early religion, therefore, creativity was seen as divine: we still use religious language to speak of creative "inspiration" which shapes reality anew and brings fresh meaning to the world.

eminent monotheists in all three faiths—that instead of waiting for God to descend from on high, I should deliberately create a sense of him for myself.