Quotes about Inspiration

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative man.

The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This

Genius is religious.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts.

For it is a fire that kindling its first embers in the narrow nook of a private bosom, caught from a wandering spark out of another private heart, glows and enlarges until it warms and beams upon multitudes of men and women, upon the universal heart of all, and so lights up the whole world and all nature with its generous flames.

for the hand can never execute any thing higher than the character can inspire.

There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.

The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

But now we are a mob. Man does not stand in awe of man, nor is his genius admonished to stay at home, to put itself in communication with the internal ocean, but it goes abroad to beg a cup of water of the urns of other men.

So when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought, she detaches and sends away from it its poems or songs,—a fearless, sleepless, deathless progeny, which is not exposed to the accidents of the weary kingdom of time: a fearless, vivacious offspring, clad with wings (such was the virtue of the soul out of which they came), which carry them fast and far, and infix them irrecoverably into the hearts of men. These wings are the beauty of the poet's soul.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.