Quotes about Inspiration
How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.
— John Lennon
Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?
— Virginia Woolf
Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.
— Robert Frost
The essence of poetry is will and passion.
— William Hazlitt
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.
— Cicero
Poetry had breathed over and sanctified the land.
— Washington Irving
God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.
— Philip Yancey
Why then we should drop into poetry.
— Charles Dickens
Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.
— CS Lewis
Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.
— Joseph Campbell
The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.
— Henry David Thoreau
If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.
— John Keats