Quotes about Inspiration
Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.
— John Updike
Any person can achieve greatness if they understand the philosophy of success and the steps required to achieve it.
— Andrew Carnegie
This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life.
— St. John Chrysostom
The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.
— Peter Kreeft
Make thought a whirlwind.
— Victor Hugo
I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.
— Joseph Campbell
Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
— Viktor E. Frankl
The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.
— Vincent Van Gogh
We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.
— Vincent Van Gogh
A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize
— Oscar Wilde
But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.
— AA Milne