Quotes About Inspiration

Whatever I tried to write was verse.

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.

Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses

It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

Magic rituals provided emotional empowerment in the face of danger, and inspired solutions when alternative sources of knowledge (including science) were inadequate.

Money never starts an idea. It is always the idea that starts the money.

When a man ain't got no ideas of his own," said Scipio, "he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.

Bartók. Blame it on Bartók. Or the bossanova.

Egy idézet Thomas Manntól – vagy GoethétÅ'l?, minden idézet vagy Thomas Manntól, vagy GoethétÅ'l való – mutatja az irányt: Író az, akinek gondot okoz az írás.

De, ismétlem, a valódi irodalmi m?, nem is okvetlenül a remekm?, mint egy élÅ'lény: kimeríthetetlen. És szabad.

To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time.

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't remember what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

My mom is a sculptress.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

Greatness is not just in the truth itself but in what we can do with it.

No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else.

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart..

Music will save the world.

When we play an unaccompanied Bach suite we may compare ourselves to an actor in Shakespeare's day, creating scenery which did not exist at all, through the power of declamation and suggestion. So in Bach. There is but one voice -- and many voices have to be suggested.

God likes to be played like a piano.

While I'm writing, I'm far away; and when I come back, I've gone.