Quotes about Inspiration
Morning is when I'm awake, and there is dawn in me.
— Henry David Thoreau
I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever At the bottom of my dream.
— Henry David Thoreau
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
— Henry David Thoreau
Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows that surround it. We need the tonic of wildness...
— Henry David Thoreau
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. Nothing can be more useful to a man than the determination not to be hurried.
— Henry David Thoreau
Let him march to the music he hears.
— Henry David Thoreau
No man ever followed his genius till it misled him. Though the result were bodily weakness, yet perhaps no one can say that the consequences were to be regretted, for these were a life in conformity to higher principles.
— Henry David Thoreau
If you can speak what you will never hear,—if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things
— Henry David Thoreau
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is in the bog in our brains and bowels, the primitive vigour of Nature in us, that inspires that dream. I shall never find in the wilds of Labrador any greater wildness than in some recess of Concord, i.e. than I import into it.
— Henry David Thoreau
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is to be remembered that by good deeds or words you encourage yourself, who always have need to witness or hear them.
— Henry David Thoreau
I walk out into a Nature such as the old prophets and poets, Manu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America, but it is not America: neither Americus Vespucius, nor Columbus, nor the rest were the discoverers of it. There is a truer account of it in mythology than in any history of America, so called, that I have seen.
— Henry David Thoreau