Inspiration Quotes

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.

Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- consciousness.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.