Quotes About Inspiration

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

What is art Nature concentrated.

But I think Hillary Clinton is one of the most amazing women of this time.

Okay, but do you know that feeling when you heart a great song, and it's like the song knows you? That's what music's for. Who cares if you don't see how the pieces fit together?" -Bina

there is not a single homely thing that, looked at from a certain angle, does not become fairy. Endymion Leer

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.

As in painting, so in poetry.

A picture is a poem without words.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

But if you name me among the lyric bards, I shall strike the stars with my exalted head.

Nor does Apollo always stretch the bow.

I hate the common herd of men and keep them afar. Let there be sacred silence: I, the Muses' priest, sing for girls and boys songs not heard before.

O fount Bandusian, more sparkling than glass.

Taught or untaught, we all scribble poetry.

Turn the pages of your Greek models night and day.

Barefaced poverty drove me to writing verses.

"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man.

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

Christ does not dress up a moral picture, and ask you to observe its beauty. He only tells you how to live; and the most beautiful characters the world has ever seen, have been those who received and lived these precepts without once conceiving their beauty.

Christ is known only by them that receive Him into their love, their faith, their deep want; known only as He is enshrined within, felt as a Divine force, breathed in the inspirations of the secret life.

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.