#Inspiration Quotes

“For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?”

“Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?”

“From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.”

“But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him we owe the Brasidas, the Dion, the Epaminodas, the Scipio of old, and I must think we are more deeply indebted to him than to all the ancient writers. Each of his "Lives" is a refutation to the despondency and cowardice of our religious and political theorists. A wild courage, a Stoicism not of the schools, but of the blood, shines in every anecdote, and had given that book immense fame.”

“Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.”

“Genius Borrows nobly.”

“A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.”

“Shakespeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity, as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own; and we then feel that the splendid works which he has created, and which in other hours we extol as a sort of self-existent poetry, take no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing traveller on the rock. The inspiration which uttered itself in Hamlet and Lear could utter things as good from day to day, for ever.”

“Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.”

“The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.”

“Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and waters, and the pomp of summer. They heal us of awkwardness by their words and looks. We observe their intellectual influence on the most serious student. They refine and clear his mind: teach him to put a pleasing method into what is dry and difficult.”

“One idea lights a thousand candles.”

“Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.”

“O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.”

“In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.”

“No book was ever written down by any but itself.”

“Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence; we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than of inspiration; they have a light, and know not whence it comes, and call it their own; their talent is some exaggerated faculty, some overgrown member, so that their strength is a disease.”

“Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.”

“The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.”

“Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.”

“If you would lift me up, you've got to be on higher ground.”

“Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.”

“We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.”

“Good night, then - sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn.”

“Test of the poet is knowledge of love,For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove;Never was poet, of late or of yore,Who was not tremulous with love-lore.”

“Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.”

“O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!”

“The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.”

“After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.”

“Books are for nothing but to inspire”

“Open to me, so that I may open.Provide me your inspirationSo that I might see mine.”

“Let people catch something from your heart that will cause no discomfort, but help them to sing.”

“Because I cannot sleep I make music at night.”

“Throw off your tiredness. Let me show you one tiny spot of the beauty that can't be spoken.”

“If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flowerI will pitch my tent in your shadow.Only your presence revives my withered heart.You are the candle that lights the whole worldand I am an empty vessel for your light.”

“This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.”

“Our chief want in life, is,someone who shall make us do what we can.This is the service of a friend.With him we are easily great.”

“Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.”

“Art is evidence of our most creative moment.”

“Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.”

“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”

“Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.”

“Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in the physical realm is within the field of possibility.”

“A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.”

“Virtue runs before the muse,and defies her skill;she is rapt and doth refuseto wait a painter's will.”

“The right quote can inspire people to change their ways.”

“Great quotes make the light bulb go off in my mind. If you're like me, you'll jump at the chance to bypass all the churning and scoop the cream right off the top ~ that is what quotes are . . . the cream of our learning!”

“In many ways, effective communication begins with mutual respect, communication that inspires, encourages others to do their best.”

“I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire.”

“There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.”