Quotes About Inspiration

For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

Poetry allies itself with beauty - a supreme union - but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole nourishment.

It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

The breath of Paris pushes at my shutters.From the Balcony

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.

Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.

Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.

So few people read poetry. That's sad, isn't it?

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

The ones that you're calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.

Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.

I know he'd be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly.

One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.

Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings for freedom - give meaning to our lives.

Faith reminds us that change is always possible.

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

The man who can sing when he hasn't got a thing, he's the king of the whole wide world.

Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.

One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

I am, as many people are, inspired by Jack Layton's legacy and the way that he approached politics.

Great obstacles make great leaders.