Quotes About Inspiration

Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon." Lisa Simpson

I Like The Way That when you Tilt Poems On their side They Look like Miniature Cities From A long way Away. Skyscrapers Made out Of Words.

So long as there are still books on the shelves, you are never trapped. Every book is a potential escape.

find a good book. And sit down and read it. There will be times in your life when you'll feel lost and confused. The way back to yourself is through reading. I want you to remember that. The more you read, the more you will know how to find your way through those difficult times.

Words, just sometimes, can set you free.

Where talk exists, so does hope.

Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.

In your mind, change the name of every day to Saturday. And change the name of work to play.

There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back to yourself is through reading. There is not a problem in existence that has not been eased, somewhere and at some time, by a book. I want you to remember that. And the more you read, the more you will know how to find your way through those difficult times.

All a writer can do is provide a match, and hopefully a dry one. The reader has to strike the flame into being.

There was an old musician's cliché, about how there were no wrong notes on a piano.

Start fires. But only metaphorically. Unless you are cold and it's a safe setting. In which case: start fires.

It turned out to be near impossible to stand in a library and not want to pull things from the shelves.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

Read poetry. Especially poetry by Emily Dickinson. It might save you. Anne Sexton knows the mind, Walt Whitman knows grass, but Emily Dickinson knows everything.

The price of imagination is pain.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams,' Thoreau had said. 'Live the life you've imagined.

Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state.

I feel a swell of pride. This. This right here is why I wanted to become a teacher. To know that it is possible to change the world for the better, in however small a way.

in a world trying to increasingly isolate us from our environment and our true selves, books are our route to freedom, and to each other'.

The object of art is to give life a shape

I think life always provides reasons to not die, if we listen hard enough.

Willie Nelson once said that sometimes, you have to either write a song or you kick your foot through a window. The third option , I suppose , is that you write a book.

Bertrand Russell wrote that 'To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three-parts dead'.