Quotes About Inspiration

Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.

My wife, Jane, made it all possible. My daughter, Claire, made it

Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous

God works through people by stirring their hearts and sometimes people never know how they are helping others.

Lord Moran's The Anatomy of Courage, the

But with Taylor in command, he told you what you needed to do here—he had to run everything. You can't do a good job if you do not have a chance to use your imagination or your creativity.

Because Chamberlain, Moore, and Winters were leaders of character first, competence second, and courage third.

Once you perform once, twice, or even three times, soldiers develop confidence in your leadership. You can only hope that this confidence will be passed to other leaders within the company.

MARY'S HIDING Before these possessions you love slip away, say what Mary said when she was surprised by Gabriel, I'll hide inside God. Naked in her room she saw a form of beauty that could give her new life. Like the sun coming up, or a rose as it opens. She leaped, as her habit was, out of herself into the divine presence. There was fire in the channel of her breath. Light and majesty came. I am smoke from that fire and proof of its existence, more than any external form.

Build a far mosque where you can read your soul-book and listen to the dreams that grew in the night.

To write is to pour one's innermost self passionately upon the tempting paper, at such frantic speed that sometimes one's hand struggles and rebels, overdriven by the impatient god which guides it - and to find, next day, in place of the golden bough that bloomed miraculously in that dazzling hour, a withered bramble and a stunted flower.

The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.

Writing only leads to more writing.

what an ennobling sadness you lent to my evening's enjoyment.

A good book is a portal that will take you anywhere in the world.

One can't write of love while making love.

Do not think, as you read this, that I am painting my own portrait. Be patient, it is only my model.

Es horrible pensar, como me pasa cada vez que empiezo un libro, que ya no tengo, que nunca he tenido talento alguno.

car écrire ne conduit qu'à écrire.

When does one stop writing? . . . I thought in the past that the work of writing was like other tasks; the tool is laid down and one cries out in delight: 'Finished!' and you clap your hands, from where there rain down grains of sand that first one believed to be precious . . . It is then that you read in the outlines traced by the grains of sand the words: 'To be continued . . .

Those who are not imitated always get disappointed.

No one has ever talked to me as he did of the color blue or of golden hair curling like shavings around a reddened ear ...