Quotes About Inspiration

Everything that is responsible for creating something out of nothing is a kind of poetry; and so all the creations of every craft and profession are themselves a kind of poetry, and everyone who practices a craft is a poet.

I was attached to this city by the god—though it seems a ridiculous thing to say—as upon a great and noble horse which was somewhat sluggish because of its size and needed to be stirred up by a kind of gadfly. It is to fulfill some such function that I believe the god has placed me in the city. I never cease to rouse each and every one of you, to persuade and reproach you all day long and everywhere I find myself in your company

Bo dobrze i pi?knie zrobiona rzecz dobr? si? staje; niedobrze zrobiona jest z??. Tak wi?c i kochanie, i Eros nie ka?dy jest pi?kny i uwielbienia wart, lecz ten tylko, co pi?kny rozp?omienia ?ar.

O que digo é que é pela beleza em si que as coisas belas são belas.

For I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but first and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.

La virtud con sus dones diversos nace de la inspiración de una naturaleza honesta, que por su propio esfuerzo abraza a la vez la esencia y todos los modos, debido al sentimiento innato del bien, que la precede y que la crea. Esta ciencia verdaderamente anterior y superior a la virtud, ninguno puede enseñarla, porque cada uno debe sacarla de sí mismo; nace con nosotros.

Even the fragments of his words when 'repeated at second-hand' (Symp.) have in all ages ravished the hearts of men, who have seen reflected in them their own higher nature. He is the father of idealism in philosophy, in politics, in literature. And many of the latest conceptions of modern thinkers and statesmen, such as the unity of knowledge, the reign of law, and the equality of the sexes, have been anticipated in a dream by him.

Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.

Conocí desde luego que no es la sabiduría la que guía a los poetas, sino ciertos movimientos de la naturaleza y un entusiasmo semejante al de los profetas y adivinos; que todos dicen muy buenas cosas, sin comprender nada de lo que dicen.

Books have been my classroom and my confidant. Books have widened my horizons. Books have comforted me in my hardest times. Books have changed my life.

If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer. However, you should be conscious of exactly how you are imitating him - word choice, sentence structure, motifs? - and think about why you're doing it.

I don't think it is possible to give tips for finding one's voice; it's one of those things for which there aren't really any tricks or shortcuts, or even any advice that necessarily translates from writer to writer. All I can tell you is to write as much as possible.

President Barack Obama

And that's the work of your generation. As long as more walls still stand...We'll need more of you, young people, who imagine the world as it should be; who knock down walls; who knock down barriers; who imagine something different and have the courage to make it happen. The courage to bring communities together, to make even the small impossibilities a shining example of what is possible.

Let it be said by our children's children thta when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried frth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.

And the greatest phrase, I think, in the history of politics is on all of those red and white hats that I see out there: 'Make America Great Again'.

You must let your desires guide you, instead of allowing yourself to be boxed in by perceived constraints.

does not ingenuity consist in the finding or creating of connections between apparently extraneous orders of ideas?)

man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust.

But are they not themselves stories of a new Bible?

It's just that sometimes, he said, even when the right answer is smack in front of you, you got to reach deep inside yourself to act on it. You know what I'm sayin'?

Priscilla Cummings

Condemnation always leads to guilt-laden discouragement, while conviction—though often painful in pointing out our wrongdoing—still somehow encourages and lifts us, giving us hope to rebuild on.

The presence of passion, faith, and belief in our hearts is a gift. It's on loan to our souls.