Quotes about Inspiration

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.

Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.

If a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundation of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm...Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

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.