Quotes about Inspiration

The subjects had, indeed, risen vividly on my mind. As I saw them with the spiritual eye, before I attempted to embody them, they were striking; but my hand would not second my fancy, and in each case it had wrought out but a pale portrait of the thing I had conceived.

I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God.

And then we'll be emulating Socrates,* once we're able to write hymns of praise in prison.

You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

There is always light. If only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it."

You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.

the stars seemed near enough to touch and never before have i seen so many. i always believed the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, but i was sure of it that night.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

The backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.