Inspiration

“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.” – Austen

“A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.” – Austen

“It isn’t enough for your heart to break because everybody’s heart is broken now.” – Ginsberg

“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” – Ginsberg

“I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.” – Kerouac

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.” – Plath

“There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.” – Chopin

“The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that’s saying a lot.” – Sexton

“Either move or be moved.” – Pound

“I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.” – Pound