Inspiration

Famous quotes containing the word inspiration:

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

“Poets should be lawgivers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead, the civil code, and the day’s work. But now the two things seem irreconcilably parted.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

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