Quotes About Inspiration

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds

Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame.

The soul's joy lies in doing.

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

Thou Wonder, and thou Beauty, and thou Terror!

What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain? What fields, or waves, or mountains? What shapes of sky or plain? What love of thine own kind? What ignorance of pain?

And I have fitted up some chambers there Looking towards the golden Eastern air, And level with the living winds, which flow Like waves above the living waves below.— I have sent books and music there, and all Those instruments with which high spirits call The future from its cradle, and the past Out of its grave, and make the present last In thoughts and joys which sleep, but cannot die, Folded within their own eternity.

Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.

to hope til Hope creates from its own wreak the thing it contemplates;

Away, away, from men and towns, / To the wild wood and the downs, — / To the silent wilderness, / Where the soul need not repress its music.

Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert.

A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth. There

Poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world

the chariot's way Lay through the midst of an immense concave Radiant with million constellations, tinged With shades of infinite color, And semicircled with a belt Flashing incessant meteors.

Poetry defeats the curse which binds us to be subjected to the accident of surrounding impressions.

We want the creative faculty to imagine that which we know; we want the generous impulse to act that which we imagine; we want the poetry of life: our calculations have outrun conception; we have eaten more than we can digest. The

Siamo noi che, perduti in tempestose visioni, conduciamo una vana lotta contro gli spettri, e in una folle trance con il coltello dello spirito colpiamo, invulnerabili, nulla.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world":

that great poem, which all poets, like the co-operating thoughts of one great mind, have built up since the beginning of the world.

forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings Give various response to each varying blast, To whose frail frame no second motion brings One mood or modulation like the last.

Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.

As flowers beneath May's footstep waken, As stars from Night's loose hair are shaken, As waves arise when loud winds call, Thoughts sprung where'er that step did fall.

One after another the greatest writers, poets, and artists confirm the fact that their work comes to them from beyond the threshold of consciousness.

A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.