Quotes about Inspiration

As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, Pass here and go on, you're on the road to heaven.

Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fears...

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.

You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration

Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America.

I fear mostly my inability to capture all the things that come, I fear their mysterious source, I fear their fate, I fear me, in short. This is true…it's like finding a river of gold when you haven't even got a cup to save a cupful…you've but a thimble, and that thimble is your pathetic brain and labour and humanness.

If I ever went to Paris,' said Francis, unexpectedly pensive, 'I think I would be very happy...

There's a purpose to knowledge … salvation. What good are my visions or your visions, beautifully and laboriously worked out in art, if the purpose of it is not to save something in our souls and make it all beautiful.

Begin not from preconceived idea of what to say about image but from jewel center of interest in subject of image at moment of writing, and write outwards swimming in sea of language to peripheral release and exhaustion.

Shearing began to play his chords; they rolled out of the piano in great rich showers, you'd think the man wouldn't have time to line them up. They rolled and rolled like the sea.

And a kind of holy lightning I saw flashing from his excitement and his visions, which he described so torrentially

I liked this one One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. --Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums