CREATIVE INSPIRATION
QUOTATIONS
from Creative Minds
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"We work in the dark
We do what we can
We give what we have.
Our doubt is our passion
and our passion is our task.
The rest is the madness of art."
- Henry James, Novelist
"This is our time. It's time for us to stop settling for the world as it is
and start re-imagining the world as it might be." - Barack Obama, Leader
"To write, I must prepare myself for a long time. Sometimes it takes five years... In my life, my music, my work, in my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning. The complex and many faceted only confuses me, and I must search for unity. What it is, this one thing, and how do I find my way to it? Traces of this thing appear in many guises. And everything that is unimportant falls away... Here I am alone with silence. I have discovered that it is enough when a single note is played... That is my goal. Time and timelessness are connected. This instant and eternity are struggling within us." - Arvo Part, Composer
"Ineffable Poetry is that part of ourselves we need poetry to describe."
Richard James Allen, The Kamikaze Mind
"So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years—
Twenty years largely wasted, the years of l'entre deux guerres
Trying to use words, and every attempt
Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure
Because one has only learnt to get the better of words
For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which
One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture
Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate
With shabby equipment always deteriorating
In the general mess of imprecision of feeling,
Undisciplined squads of emotion. And what there is to conquer
By strength and submission, has already been discovered
Once or twice, or several times, by men whom one cannot hope
To emulate—but there is no competition—
There is only the fight to recover what has been lost
And found and lost again and again: and now, under conditions
That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss.
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business."
T.S. Eliot, East Coker, Four Quartets
"Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep."
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