"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." - BIBLE, Psalms 119:105

"O! for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention!"
- SHAKESPEARE, Henry V

"Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: 'Fool,' 0 said my Muse to me, 'look in thy heart, and write!'" - PHILIP SIDNEY, Astrophel and Stella

"Why does my Muse only speak when she is unhappy?
She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy
When I am happy I live and despise writing
For my Muse this cannot but be dispiriting."
- STEVIE SMITH, My Muse

"Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning." - IGOR STRAVINSKY, An Autobiography

"One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)

"I am only one, but I am still one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do." - Hale, Edward Everett