Inspiration Quotes

The spark that starts everything. Words that have launched movements, careers, and quiet revolutions.

19223 quotes

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"I consider myself a prophet."
William S. Burroughs
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"Every person is a potential masterpiece."
Saul Bellow
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"Inspiration strikes the prepared mind."
Joseph Heller
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"Inspiration without perspiration is just daydreaming."
Joseph Heller
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"One should pursue the extraordinary."
Norman Mailer
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"Ginsberg equals poetry equals freedom"
Allen Ginsberg
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"Inspiration strikes those who are ready for it."
Joseph Heller
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"I have nothing to declare except my genius."
William S. Burroughs
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"The best inspiration comes from living fully."
William S. Burroughs
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"Inspiration is 10% divine gift and 90% disciplined practice."
Norman Mailer
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"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked"
Allen Ginsberg
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"Every man has within him the seeds of greatness"
Allen Ginsberg
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"The purpose of writing is to change the world."
William S. Burroughs
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"Inspiration is the collision of ideas."
William S. Burroughs
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"Make it real."
William Carlos Williams
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"Inspiration strikes when we least expect it."
William Carlos Williams
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"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live."
Jack Kerouac
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"Inspiration doesn't wait for you to be ready."
Jack Kerouac
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"Inspiration is the whisper of the universe."
Hart Crane
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"Inspiration is divine spark."
Hart Crane
"My great-grandfather did not travel the world to see that I would waste my life."
Kurt Vonnegut
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"The universe speaks to us through small moments of unexpected grace."
William Carlos Williams
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"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked"
Allen Ginsberg
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"Inspiration is recognizing the extraordinary in the ordinary"
Allen Ginsberg
"The poem refreshes life so that we share, for a moment, the first idea."
Wallace Stevens
"The poem is the cry of its occasion."
Wallace Stevens
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"The only people for me are the mad ones, those who are mad to live."
Jack Kerouac
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"I want to live a life that echoes in eternity."
Jack Kerouac
"Ecstasy affords the occasion."
Marianne Moore
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"One must be daring in the face of mediocrity."
Hart Crane