Quotes about Inspiration
Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.
— William Wordsworth
Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.
— Oscar Wilde
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!
— Edith Schaeffer
Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free.
— Helen Keller
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