Quotes about Inspiration
From imperfection's murkiest cloud, Darts always forth one ray of perfect light, One flash of Heaven's glory. -from Song of the Universal
— Walt Whitman
Here is what sings unrestricted faith.
— Walt Whitman
And I will not make a poem nor the least part of a poem but has reference to the soul, Because having look'd at the objects of the universe, I find there is no one nor any particle of one but has reference to the soul.
— Walt Whitman
The greater the reform needed, the greater the personality you need to accomplish it.
— Walt Whitman
The instincts of the American people are all perfect, and tend to make heroes.
— Walt Whitman
In poems or in speeches I say the word or two that has got to be said, adhere to the body, step with the countless common footsteps, and remind every man and woman of something.
— Walt Whitman
Love is the cause of causes
— Walt Whitman
This minute that comes to me over the past Decillions. There is no better than it And now. What behaves well In the past or behaves well To-day is not such a wonder. The wonder is always and Always how there can be A mean man or an infidel.
— Walt Whitman
power of the Holy Spirit is superabundant.
— Watchman Nee
Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.
— Wendell Berry
To be creative is only to have health: to keep oneself fully alive in the Creation, to keep the Creation fully alive in oneself, to see the Creation anew, to welcome one's part in it anew.
— Wendell Berry
Nobody ever outgrows Scripture the book widens and deepens with our years.
— Charles Spurgeon