Quotes About Inspiration

Love is not consolation," she wrote. "It is light." All right then, let me try to rephrase. When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.

On April 20, 1970, the poet Paul Celan left his home in Paris, walked to a bridge over the River Seine, and jumped to his death. He left a biography of Hölderlin open on his desk, with the following words underlined: "Sometimes this genius goes dark and sinks down into the bitter well of his heart." The sentence does not end there. Celan chose not to underline the rest: "but mostly his apocalyptic star glitters wondrously.

Joan Mitchell—abstract painter

Les Bluets, which she painted in 1973

Did my daughter appear to me a decade and a half before she was born? I like to think so. There she was, looping back through time to brush past a person not yet ready to be her mother--nowhere near ready, if I'm honest--tipping me the wink that she would one day arrive in my life. Readying me, perhaps, for the road ahead, sowing the seeds for all the strength, compassion and resilience required for her existence.

Maggie O'Farrell

The people who teach us something retain a particularly vivid place in our memories. I'd been a parent for about ten minutes when I met the man, but he taught me, with a small gesture, one of the most important things about the job: kindness, intuition, touch, and that sometimes you don't even need words.

May we walk with grace and may the light of the universe shine upon our path.

Maggie Osborne

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Maggie Shayne

...she made her home in between the pages of books.

All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.

God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.

Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.

Whether your writing is for personal journals or for publication, there are aspects we all share as writers.

Good words, good deeds, and beautiful expressions A wise man ever culls from every quarter, E?en as a gleaner gathers ears of corn.

I hope to bring people to God with my songs.

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?

We must become the change we want to see.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

Be the change we wish to see in the world

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