"What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats andclothes you have worn out.”

“Who is he that shall control me? Why may not I act and speak and write and think with entire freedom? What am I to the universe, or, the unvierse, what is it to me? Who hath forged the chains of wrong and right, of Opinion and Custom? And must I wear them?”

“It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'”

“If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.”

“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.”

“The finest poetry was first experience.”

“Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love.”

“What would we not give for some great poem to read now, which would be in harmony with the scenery,--for if men read aright, methinks they would never read anything but poems. No history nor philosophy can supply their place.”

“I like books that are fat and full.”