Quotes about Inspiration
I never thought, when I used to read books, what work it was to write them.... It's work enough to read them sometimes.... As to the writing, it has its own charms.
— Charles Dickens
conventional phrases are a sort of fireworks, easily let off, and liable to take a great variety of shapes and colours not at all suggested by their original form.
— Charles Dickens
O Agnes, O my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed; so may I, when realities are melting from me, like the shadows which I now dismiss, still find thee near me, pointing upward!
— Charles Dickens
If you will hear me through a very little more, all you can ever do for me is done. I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul...A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.
— Charles Dickens
As good as gold," said Bob, "and better. Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember, upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk and blind men see.
— Charles Dickens
BRAIN: A commodity as scarce as radium and more precious, used to fertilize ideas.
— Elbert Hubbard
It is while you are patiently toiling at little tasks that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn upon you.
— Phillips Brooks
A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words. Some poems took years to find their words.
— Robert Frost
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason.
— Samuel Johnson
He will not force you to share your faith, but He will prompt you. And when you take that step of faith, He will empower and use you.
— Greg Laurie
Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.
— Greg Laurie
Doubt they had ever heard anyone sing in that dungeon before.
— Greg Laurie