Quotes About Inspiration

the world often seemed more like a template for fiction than something that should be indulged in for its own sake.

That's what writers and artists and creators do, boy. Listen to the Void and try to hear dead folks' thoughts. Feel their pain. The pain of living folks too. Finding a muse is just an artist or holy man's way of getting a foot in the Void Which Binds' front door. Aenea knew that. You should have too.

I doubt if he ever confronted and acknowledged his own deeper motivations, except when they were as pure as spring water.

He suspected that Duane had lived in those lofty realms of thought, listening to the voices of men long dead rising from books the way he'd once said he listened to late-night radio shows in his basement.

Alone with the Morlocks, thought Silenus. But not even Morlocks for company in the end. Only my muse. There

But as long as the task is both onerous and repetitive, I discovered, the mind is not only free to wander to more imaginative climes, it actually flees to higher planes.

takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature

Why . . ." she begins. "Why do you want to climb it?" "Because it's there.

I have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember'd.

The strongest beings are those who sing themselves into existence.

Well, nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity, I always say.

I learned that poets aren't God, but if there is a God … or anything approaching a God … he's a poet. And a failed one at that.

Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth.

Have you always used a pen?" "No," I said, "only when I want to write something worth reading.

To be a true poet is to become God.

Poco después del enorme éxito de La mujer de blanco, se me preguntó cuál era el secreto de mi éxito; yo, modestamente, le dije a mi interlocutor: 1. Busca una idea central. 2. Idea unos personajes. 3. Deja que los personajes desarrollen los incidentes. 4. Empieza la historia por el principio.

No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create, Raul. Or for those who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives.

Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.

During those long months of beginning my Cantos on Heaven's Gate, I discovered that the difference between finding the right word as opposed to accepting the almost right word was the difference between being struck by lightning and merely watching a lightning display.

no book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.

The sculptor Pete Garcia is found in his studio Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and in his bedroom Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and in the yard beyond.

interlocutor

If I should die," said I to myself, "I have left no immortal work behind me—nothing to make my friends proud of my memory—but I have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember'd.

But as long as the task is both onerous and repetitive, I discovered, the mind is not only free to wander to more imaginative climes, it actually flees to higher planes. Thus