Quotes about Inspiration
Mr. Latimer to say: "Be of good cheer, Ridley; and play the man. We shall this day, by God's grace, light up such a candle in England, as I trust, will never be put out.
— John Foxe
Catharine Finlay, alias Knight, was first converted by her son's expounding the Scriptures to her,
— John Foxe
To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
— John Henry Newman
Let the mad poets say whate'er they pleaseOf the sweets of Fairies, Peris, Goddesses,Haunters of cavern, lake, and waterfall,As a real woman, lineal indeedFrom Pyrrha's pebbles or old Adam's seed.
— John Keats
O for ten years, that I may overwhelmMyself in poesy; so I may do the deedThat my own soul has to itself decreed.
— John Keats
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
— John Keats
To one who has been long in city pent,'Tis very sweet to look into the fairAnd open face of heaven.
— John Keats
When I have fears that I may cease to beBefore my pen has glean'd my teeming brain.
— John Keats
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
— John Keats
The poetry of earth is never dead.
— John Keats
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not.
— John Keats
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
— John Keats