Quotes about Inspiration

Pharisees—men who lived in the strength of a fellowship that had behind it the greatest religious tradition in all the world, but who, because they trusted more to their tradition than to the God who inspired it, were unable to recognise the still further call of God when it came to them.

To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

Prophets of Nature, we to them will speakA lasting inspiration, sanctifiedBy reason, blest by faith: what we have loved,Others will love, and we will teach them how;Instruct them how the mind of man becomesA thousand times more beautiful than the earthOn which he dwells.

A perfect woman, nobly planned,To warn, to comfort, and command.And yet a Spirit still, and brightWith something of angelic light.

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour:England hath need of thee: she is a fenOf stagnant waters.

My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky.

A light to guide, a rod to check the erring, and reprove.

Enough, if something from our hands have powerTo live, and act, and serve the future hour.

What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.

Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home.