Quotes about Inspiration

This is a pattern. Something bonded with something like it, and that introduced something new, something more complex, something that previously didn't exist. Something the universe had never seen before. All because of a drive. A drive to bond, to unite, to come together. Where does this drive come from? It comes from within. This

Connection is an engine of creation.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

A poet never takes notes..you never take notes in a Love Affair.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

There are two kinds of teachers—the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies." (I hope I am remembered as a prodder.)

If you think beauty insipid, you haven't experienced it. Nor is it always devoid of suffering. That's something religious artists have always understood, Michelangelo, Chagall, and Van Gogh, Beethoven, C.S. Lewis, and all the writer's for whom beauty is a gift and a calling.

The heart of everything is faith. Without it, life has no meaning. With it, everything is ennobled.

Oh, I wonder if I shall ever be able to do anything worth while in the way of writing.

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be--to me in all events--a terrible thing without books.

I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.

You are always new to me.