Quotes about Inspiration
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
Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
O that our dreamings all, of sleep or wake, Would all their colours from the sunset take.
— John Keats
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skilfully.
— Aristotle
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
— Barack Obama
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
— Shirley Chisholm
Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.
— Jay-Z