Quotes About Inspiration

William Shakespeare

At first I did adore a twinkling star But now I worship a celestial sun

You are an alchemist; make gold of that.

And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

I'll call for pen and ink and write my mind

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade The eyes of men without orator.

I might call him. A thing divine, for nothing natural. I ever saw so noble.

Have I thought long to see this morning's face, And doth it give me such a sight as this?

Find tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

William Shakespeare

Tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Music oft hath such a charm To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.

Never durst a poet touch a pen to write Until his ink was tempered with love's sighs.

And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.

William Shakespeare

My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; I know not where I am, nor what I do;

William Shakespeare

There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is.

My brain I'll prove the female to my soul; my soul the father: and these two beget a generation of still-breeding thoughts, and these same thoughts people this little world.

In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell. It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound.

More flow'rs I noted, yet I none could see But sweet or color it had stol'n from thee.

Our reasons are not prophets When oft our fancies are.

I talk of dreams, which are the children of an idle brain'.

Wilt thou reach stars because they shine on thee?