Inspiration is all very well; but "genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
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.
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under any other circumstances.
The inspiration which uttered itself in Hamlet and Lear could utter things as good from day to day for ever.
From that inspiration the man comes back with a changed tone.
Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom and which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism.
I expect to see a vast deal of shabbiness and baseness and turmoil, and in the midst of it all I'm sure the inspiration of patriotism will sometimes fail.
For inspiration it goes back of the age of Brandeis to the age of Pericles.
But that silent song was the direct inspiration of much of the sublimest music of the centuries to come.
Such a gift is what the true artist enjoys wheninspiration comes too fast and full for a dozen pens or brushes to record.
When an inspirationcomes to them, what do they do?
It was a wonderful picture, and no wonder that Georgia's eyes fired up, and her color came and went and her countenance glowed with power, and triumph and inspiration as she gazed.
This she had hitherto spent either in her long, wild walks or in her dark reveries; but now, of late, a new inspiration had seized her.
She hesitated a moment before she commenced the next, and then, as if a sudden inspiration had seized her, she rapidly began to sketch.
And it took his lordship's inspiration no longer to flower.
But I confess I don't quite grasp the so odd inspiration that you've set those men to carry out.
The pathos, the majesty, the royalty of sorrow, the admiration and pity of Pilate, have been for centuries the inspiration of Christian art.
The three days of the coronation and of the successive votes are brought into one effect, of which we are made to feel that it is due to a magic inspiration of Maria Theresa.
Hints are not wanting that sweetness and life in public worship derived inspiration from the same quarter.
Thus, theinspiration of genius is akin to the inspiration of prophecy.
The necessary disorder and feverishness of high literary and artistic inspiration is a second postulate of the pleas to which I refer.
The man of genius apparently writes, or paints, as the birds sing, or as the spring colours the flowers; but his subject has long possessed his mind, and the inspiration is the child of thought and of ordered labour.
They are necessary, because without these grand conceptions our moral language and our moral life would be wanting in dignity, in amplitude, in the inspiration and impulse which are often necessary for duty and always for restoration.
Then is the age of admiration--Then Gods walk the earth, or beings more than men; Who breathe the soul of inspiration round, Whose very shadows consecrate the ground!
Marked each pure thought we registered on high; Still, still ye walk the consecrated ground, And breathe the soul of inspiration round.
The young men had grown poets, from the inspiration of the scenes they lived among, and their mutual conversation.
It ended in a sudden inspiration to get out of his way.
With that inspiration that descends at times from above for the good or evil of our common mediocrity, she had a sense of having been for him only a violent and sincere choice of curiosity and pity--a thing that passes.
That night he had been vapouring before her as to his intention to face his two guests and, instead of that inspiration he needed, had merely received the usual warning: "Be careful, Wilhelm.
He has never minted a coinage which can buy the inspiration of a noble thought, which can purchase love for the starved heart, or can endow a man with the vision and the faculty divine.
But we lived and learned to bless that significant sentence, which President Taylor uttered in his wisdom, and by the inspirationof the Spirit.
Once more the inspiration came to me to pray, and I called upon my Heavenly Father for help.
The Elder renewed the promise which he had made to Briant during the child's lifetime; and he did it, unquestionably, by the inspiration of the Almighty.
It was an inspiration to repay "whatever gods may be" for the felicity of her diamonds by doing a good action which would also bring pleasure to another.
Secondly, she had come by an inspirationduring dinner, and was anxious to carry it into effect.
His life was to prove an almost unexampled inspiration to art, because it was itself a poem by reason of its unfailing realization of the conceptions of a fervent and beautiful imagination.
It was also the spring of excellence, the inspiration of high deeds.
This resistless love was also life's highest worth, and the spring of inspiration and strength for doing valorously and living nobly.
Their inspiration was the Christian Faith, working within them and bending their strength to its call.
This is true of both the Greek and the Latin Fathers, and affords a prodigious proof that the inspiration and the exigencies of the new religion had drawn into one spiritual vortex the energies and interests of Christian communities.
Its ideals drew inspiration from Christianity and many a suggestion from the antique.
St. Bernard, to whom it is ascribed, was in large part its inspiration and its author.
Evidently, in Gottfried's mind the Tristan tale of love's almighty passion carried the thought of love as the inspiration of a noble life.
In the end the love between man and woman drew new inspiration and energy from the enhancement of all the rest of love, which came with Christianity.
We wondered if the Irvingites often waited for an inspiration in this contented way.
So we knew that they were both Irvingites, and the only scepticism that intruded itself upon us was this: Suppose inspiration never came, how should we get home?
We have here the recognition of the inspiration of the scribe, as ancillary to that of the prophet.
Ecclesiastical office does not necessarily confer any inspiration from above.
We do not save the inspiration of a date by showing that it is only five years wrong, and not twenty.
They claimed to be devoted servants of Jehovah, and for the most part the claim was made in all sincerity; but they misunderstood His character, and mistook for Divine inspiration the suggestions of their own prejudice and self-will.
The prophet whose words are unpalatable to his hearers is more likely to have a true inspiration than the man who kindles their fancy with glowing pictures of an imminent millennium.
If Roman and Greek orthodoxy interposes the Church between the soul and Christ, yet the inspiration claimed for the Church to-day is, at any rate in some measure, that of the living Spirit of Christ speaking to the souls of living men.
Jeremiah, however, shows scant confidence[416] in theinspiration of those who dream dreams, and it does not seem likely that this is a unique exception to his ordinary experience.
We have ventured to assume that, however erring and culpable Hananiah may have been, he yet had an honest faith in his own inspiration and in the truth of his own prophecies.
The inspiration of the Holy Spirit enabled Jeremiah to resist this shallow conclusion, and to maintain through every crisis his unshaken faith in the profounder truth.
But there is no inspiration to write any new revelation: the spoken word, the consecrated life, are inspired; the book is only a record of inspired speech and action.
It is an inspiration of his mind as much as poetic Imagination.
Inspiration did not preserve them from errors in grammar, or natural philosophy, or anything else foreign to the actual design of the Bible, which is the revelation of God, and of His will to man.
The Bible is called the "Word of God" because the authors wrote by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, Heb.
Their ministers may be either male or female, the only qualification necessary being the immediate inspirationof the Holy Spirit.
The chief rule of their faith is that the inspiration of the Holy Spirit so guides and teaches them that the Bible and all else is subordinate to this inward monition of the Spirit.
He believed in the inspiration of the moment; and his inspiration was seldom wrong.
But the girl's inspiration was gone, and even his skill at this form of gambling availed him nothing.
Italy had then to learn a new language, and to borrow inspiration from another genius.
The dream of the apparition's inspiration of this unlettered monk was one more miracle among many in honour of the monastery; and it was to be told in the customary way, for never yet in a holy brotherhood was found a recusant.
There was inspiration in his system, and he freed his genius from the barbaric taste or the undisturbed dulness which had prevailed since the days of Chaucer.
These philosophers were the contemporaries of Luther: they had not engaged in his theological reformation, but it is more than probable that they had caught the inspiration of his hardy spirit.
There is the struggle with one's self, with the temptations to do high work from low motives, or to neglect it, and to substitute routine for inspiration and mechanism for fervour.
If it was true that God's dealing with man was direct and not indirect, then why might not men look for immediate inspiration of the divine spirit as of old before all this machinery of priests and forms had been invented?
If he was capable of any sincere utterance he was sincere when he said to Ammonius that he felt himself moved by an almost divine inspiration when he got going on his Jerome.
Courage is the very inspiration of Folly, and the proof is the stupid bungling of great thinkers when they try to do things.
The paper fell from Toni's hands and the light of a great inspiration flashed into her face.
