Inspiration

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“The ironies in the commonplace are my inspiration and delight.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Shakespeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity, as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own; and we then feel that the splendid works which he has created, and which in other hours we extol as a sort of self-existent poetry, take no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing traveller on the rock. The inspiration which uttered itself in Hamlet and Lear could utter things as good from day to day, for ever.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)