Quotes About Inspiration

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

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May felt exhilarated around Bryant. He had always imagined that somewhere out there, away from suburban dullness, ardent young people were allowed to give freer rein to their thoughts. He felt as though he had arrived at a place he had always wanted to be.

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.

One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.

If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

When I write, I am trying through the movement of my fingers to reach my head. I'm trying to build a word ladder up to my brain.

Worrying about originality is like worrying about the best place to hang your wall phone.

Make it interesting and it will be true: this is what story writers live by.

Den hatte der Major jetzt freilich ganz vergessen, er berief sich nicht auf ihn, er nannte nicht innerlich seinen Namen, er zitierte den René nicht, wie wir den Anton Kuh in einer Fußnote. Würden alle Urheber-Rechts-Verletzungen im Leben ebenso verfolgt wie in der Literatur, der Welt gesamtes Gerichtswesen reichte nicht aus, um die Prozesse abzuwickeln, die ständig reziproken Anleihe-Verhältnisse auf dem Markt unserer Vorstellungen zu klären.

A régebbi zeneszerzÅ'k közül nekem Chopin és Schubert a legkedvesebb. Tudom, hogy a zenetanárunknak igaza volt, amikor Mozartot mennyeinek, Beethovent nagyszer?nek, Gluckot páratlannak, Bachot pedig hatalmasnak nevezte; tudom. Bach nekem mindig olyan, mint egy harminckötetes dogmatika, amely bámulatba ejt. De Schubert és Chopin két olyan földi lény, amilyen alighanem magam is vagyok.

I seldom have a firm plot or any idea at all about the ending. But there is a clear, almost mathematically conceptual idea that determines length--the length or brevity of a literary work being comparable to the size of the frame needed by a picture.

When I am asked how or why I wrote this or that, I always find myself quite embarrassed. I would gladly furnish not merely the questioner, but myself as well, with an exhaustive answer, but can never do so. I cannot recreate the context in its entirety, yet I wish that I could, so that at least the literature I myself make might be made slightly less of a mysterious process than bridge-building and bread-baking.

Though the idea was Hitler's, originating in a scribbled note

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All our dreams begin in youth.

Mountains are alive; they have their rhythm and need rest … Mountains give us strength and provide a refuge. They are the realms of freedom.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men, and rocks them up to manhood; and this meager foster-mother remains their faithful companion throughout life.

Don't send a poet to London.