Quotes About Inspiration

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains, as no artist could ever do!

All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.

Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.

Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.

They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?

There is a paradise, and all true artists work to the glory of its existence, even if they do not always believe with conventional or organised faith.

The grace of God is poetry...

poets have the spiritual fire within them; they are of the aetherial force, perhaps of the after-life. Who knows?

What a strange power there is in woman! She comes in contact with a genius without portfolio, an exceptionally useless implement like me, and then, without any preaching on her part, he feels himself in duty bound to do all sorts of things he never dreamed of doing before. The

Chance created the situation; genius made use of it.

In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had become still stronger and purer. The one mystery of death, still unsolved, had scarcely passed before his eyes, when another mystery had arisen, as insoluble, urging him to love and to life.

The goal of the artist is not to solve a question irrefutably, but to force people to love life in all its countless, inexhaustible manifestations.

The heroine of my writings is She, whom I love with all the forces of my being, She who always was, is and will be beautiful, is Truth

I must drink lots of tea or I cannot work. Tea unleashes the potential which slumbers in the depth of my soul.

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.