Prophetic Inspiration

Famous quotes containing the words prophetic and/or inspiration:

“I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

“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)