Quotes about Inspiration

I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.

You'll know you're amazing when you get devoted to making other people amazing.

If someone is there to believe in you, to care about you and support you, amazing things can happen.

And if the mind thinks with a believing attitude one can do amazing things.

Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love.

It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are.

And his words fell upon the table like a blessing.

And yet for a long time, looking back, I have been unable to shake off the feeling that I have been led—make of that what you will.

VI We travelers, walking to the sun, can't see Ahead, but looking back the very light That blinded us shows us the way we came, Along which blessings now appear, risen As if from sightlessness to sight, and we, By blessing brightly lit, keep going toward That blessed light that yet to us is dark.