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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we’re too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment.