Quotes About Inspiration

Learning from books is so empowering - whether it be from history, a novel or a poem. When you come away from reading having learned something, you yourself are bigger.

The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book.

I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.

I think Hillary Clinton - first of all, it's a great victory, acknowledge it. She has made history.

each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.

You can take things from the past, from the culture, from the immediate past and things that have not yet entered the culture, so they have no history yet. You can create your own context.

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

Give the historians something to write about.

Well, the ancients might not have been very heroic. Most of them were probably like Mother, crouched somewhere trying to work out how to make fake jawbone jewelry that would look like the real thing.

I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

I don't believe in the Great Man theory of science or history. There are no great men, just men standing on the shoulders of other men and what they have done.

When you think back in history about producers and artists or writers who've had good synergy, a lot of times they date, or they're married, or there's a friendship and a kinship.

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.

Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.

Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.

If you want to be a photographer, first leave home

While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.

Everyone is influenced by everybody but you bring it down home the way you feel it.

When the world seems large and complex, we need to remember that great world ideals all begin in some home neighborhood.

I could never leave my home.... It inspires me a lot.