Quotes About Inspiration

The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from the seeds of the Divine mind sown in man.

The applause and the favour of our fellow-men Fan even a spark of genius to a flame.

The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal.

A man of many seasons and many rainbows - there are so many dimensions of celebration.

Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music man. It's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat.

But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says.

The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence.

Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

We expect a great man to be a good reader.

When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.

What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.

A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

For, rightly, every man is a channel through which heaven floweth, and, whilst I fancied I was criticising him, I was censuring orrather terminating my own soul.

The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men.

I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.

When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.