We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
Category Archives: Writing
Wise Words: Albert Einstein: imagination
Your imagination is your preview to life’s coming attractions.
Wise Words: Mark Twain: courage
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Wise Words: Henry David Thoreau: write
How vain it is to sit down and write when you have not stood up to live.
Wise Words: Helen Keller: discover
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Wise Words: Mahatma Gandhi: wisdom
It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Wise Words: Aldous Huxley: words
Words are the thread on which we string our experiences.
Wise Words: Lord Byron
Words are things; and a small drop of ink
Falling like dew upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
Wise Words: Robert Frost: writing
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
Wise Words: Raymond Chandler
There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art, science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science, art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.
