Quotes about Inspiration

The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musician, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce.

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts and can write what I please. I see no reason why I should not have the same thought, the same power of expression, to-morrow. What I write, whilst I write it, seems the most natural thing in the world: but yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in this direction in which now I see so much; and a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he was that wrote so many continuous pages.

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

Imitation cannot go above its model.

The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.

Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment.

All writing comes by the grace of God.

All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.

Thought is the bud, language the blossom and action the fruit behind it.