Quotes About Inspiration

Allora, come va il tuo libro, Ruth?' mi ha chiesto Timmy. 'Ruth vuol fare la scrittrice' ha spiegato a Packy. In realtà io non volevo fare la scrittrice, volevo fare la lettrice , aspirazione assai più rara. Ma sai com'è, una cosa tira l'altra.

She flashed upon his life with an electric energy, shattering every day's effort at work and leaving a kind of glimmering burning feeling all day and night around the edges of his heart.

stepping them into that elsewhere from which all music takes its origins.

Fionn learned that to make a poet you need: Fire of Song, Light of Knowledge and the Art of Recitation

and keep tapping you on the shoulder.

When I was twelve years old god spoke to my father for the first time.

Some people you meet and you feel this little lift in your heart, this Ah, because there's something in them that's brighter or lighter, something beautiful or better than you, and here's the magic: instead of feeling worse, instead of feeling why am I so ordinary?, you feel just the opposite, you feel glad. In a weird way you feel better, because before this you hadn't realised or you'd forgotten human beings could shine so.

Transcendence is the business of poets. That's what they're for. They're not like you and me. They have that extra bit that's always ready for take-off. Poets understand why God didn't give us wings: he wanted entertainment. He wanted us to aspire, to ascend. He wanted poetry. My

his belief in what the poet called the holiness of the heart's affections

that elsewhere from which all music takes its origins.

Writing is a sickness only cured by writing.

Forse ogni poeta è condannato all'insoddisfazione. Dev'essere per colpa della luce che li abbaglia

He had no intention of writing. He loved reading, that was all. And he read books that he thought so far beyond anything that he himself could dream of achieving that any thought of writing instantly evaporated into the certainty of failure.

There's a book inside you. There's a library inside me.

It seems like there is something about sharing your insides with the world that gives other people strength and hope and helps them not to feel so alone.

A poem should improve on the blank page.

Creo que moriré de poesía

A good accountant or financial adviser is a kind of artist. You can turn people's money into the most amazing creative possibilities, things they would never have dreamed of.

Improvvisamente sono quasi accecato dalle mille possibilità che mi offre una trama, mi toglie quasi il respiro.

Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.

Could there ever be a more wonderful story than your own?

Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.

Consequently, Sylvia Plath's elevated position among literary figures has extolled her from the depths of depression to the heights of heavenly poetic bliss."

Perpetually restless, Thomas Wolfe was "without a home — a vagabond since [he] was seven" and seeking out where he belonged physically (i.e. in Asheville, his home or Harvard) as well as intellectually. This concept that he was indeed without a father led him to gain greater understanding, eventually realizing that his search for a patriarch was not merely a "father in the flesh," but a substitution for God, a guiding light, and an alluring source of inspiration.