Quotes About Inspiration

O reverend Chaucere, rose of rethoris all,As in oure tong ane flour imperiall, That raise in Britane evir, quho redis rycht,Thou beris of makaris the triumph riall.

Most joyful the Poet be;It is through him that all men see.

Navajo heaven is not a solemn gray high refuse heap for humble failures.

that) but because God thought the whole thing up first. Fran illustrates this with the Sistine Chapel in Rome, where Michelangelo portrays the creation of

Children of heroes have glory for breakfast.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Life has a higher end, than to be amused.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aidthem to judge for themselves.

Art is life, plus caprice.

Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.

It is in the order of the imagination, the order of poetry, that the possible exceeds itself, is sanctified in excess.

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books — even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.

Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

If a story is in you, it has to come out.