Quotes About Inspiration

Without an external source for theological truth, there is no limit on where your imagination will take you.

When Rachel Carson accepted the National Book Award, she said, 'if there is poetry in my book about the sea it is not because I deliberately put it there but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out poetry.

Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I'll give you love unfolding.

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Dreams are at once fruit and outcry against an atrophy of the senses..

Dreams are the wind of the mind.

You need the combination of know-how and motivation.

Which teacher has the bigger influence? Where is more time available for change? Those two numbers—900 and 7,800—will appear over and over in this book.

Crerand recalls, it gave them an injection of confidence. 'After winning the Cup, we realised that we could then win anything,' he says. 'It was the start of our good run in the 1960s, much like Alex Ferguson's success in 1990 was the start of what has become the greatest era in United's history.

I will be dead in five years' time, but while I am here, I will travel many highways and I will, of necessity, die at a time when my message of love, peace, and freedom can be shared with people all over the world.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

You got me floatin' across and through You make me float right on up to you The only thing I need to get me there Is to hear you laugh without a care

Well, she's walking through the clouds, with a circus mind that's running wild.

Music is a safe kind of high

Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.

That to me is the way any good romantic would look at his life: Live it first, then write it down before you go.

Mrs. Annie Duitscher from Baltimore came by. In 1882, when she was eleven years old, she saw President [William] McKinley going up the street and moved forward to shake hands him. Her father said 'We're just common folks. You can't shake hands with the president.' And now she's 106 years old and came by to shake hands with me. She's very lively and witty, and I enjoyed meeting with her.

For the first time, we recognized a medium that takes our ordinary, everyday objects like bowls, baskets, and quilts and elevates them to art forms that rival painting and sculpture in their impact. (From the forward to Crafts in America: Celebrating Two Centuries of Artists and Objects.

Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse.

But she did have to do something creative, even if it was just some little thing, because she was not writing, and not writing is hard work, almost as hard as writing.

Without desire how is it possible to make a story?

I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.

See enough and write it down, I tell myself, and then some morning when the world seems drained of wonder, some day when I am only going through the motions of doing what I am supposed to do... on that bankrupt morning I will simply open my notebook and there it will all be, a forgotten account with accumulated interest, paid passage back to the world out there...

What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you've laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.