Quotes about Inspiration
Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a man loses his vision of the future he dies.
— Richard Paul Evans
We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.
— Henry David Thoreau
To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.
— Henry David Thoreau
Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.
— Henry Ward Beecher
God never made anything else so beautiful as man.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I loved the world of Oz. I guess as a young man, I was just drawn to fantasy worlds. I liked being transported to alternative realms where a lot of my early imagination was sparked.
— James Franco
Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.
— John Keats
If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.
— John Lennon
There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.
— John Updike
I grew up in a difficult environment, but I became a Christian as a teen. My mom and my sister soon became Christians also.
— Melody Carlson