"In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up"

"We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival"

"When you're younger, your inspiration is there. As you get older, it tends to waver. Once you find it - I found it again - that's where you can draw from. That's where you draw your strength from"

"Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries"

"Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind"

"As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not"

"It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances"

"No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration"

"Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain"

"Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged"

"Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them"