Inspiration

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Imagination labors best in distant fields.

Mark Twain

The Innocents Abroad

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Topic

Effects of travel Travel Creativity Imagination Inspiration

Author

Mark Twain

Source

The Innocents Abroad

Genre

Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1869 1860s 19th century

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Original Citation

Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1869.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress. Random House Publishing Group, 2003.

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Knickerbocker

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Topic

Inspiration Legacy Motivation

Author

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source

A Psalm of Life The Knickerbocker

Medium

Poem Magazine

Language

English

Time

1838 1830s 19th century

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Original Citation

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, [published anonymously]. "A Psalm of Life." The Knickerbocker. New York: Lewis Gaylord Clark, Oct. 1838, I. 25.

Current Citation

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "A Psalm of Life." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2000, I. 25.

Let frustration fuel inspiration.

Sonia Boyce

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Topic

Artistic development Inspiration Activism

Speaker

Sonia Boyce

Source

Times Higher Education

Medium

Interview

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

2015 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Boyce, Sonia. Interviewed by John Elmes. Times Higher Education, 17 Dec. 2015.

Inspiration is for amateurs-the rest of us just show up and get to work.

Chuck Close

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Topic

Artistic process Inspiration Self-discipline Hard work Art

Speaker

Chuck Close

Source

Inside the Painter's Studio

Medium

Interview

Language

English

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Citation

Close, Chuck. Inside the Painter's Studio. Princeton Architectural Press, 2009. Originally spoken during an interview with Joe Fig, 2009.

Steal old stuff.

Austin Kleon

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Topic

Borrowing and creativity Creativity Inspiration

Author

Austin Kleon

Medium

Blog post

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

2017 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Kleon, Austin. "More Advice for the Recent Graduate." 25 May 2017, austinkleon.com/2017/05/25/more-advice-for-the-recent-graduate/.

I don't wait to be struck by lightning and don't need certain slants of light in order to write.

Toni Morrison

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Topic

Inspiration Creative process Writing

Speaker

Toni Morrison

Source

The New Republic

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1981 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Morrison, Toni. "The Language Must Not Sweat." Interviewed by Thomas LeClair. The New Republic, 21 Mar. 1981.

I by no means owe my works to my own wisdom alone, but to a thousand things and persons around me, who provided me with material.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Topic

Inspiration Creativity Influences

Speaker

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Language

German

Time

1832 1830s 19th century

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Original Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Conversion with Eckermann and Soret. c. 1832.

Current Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Conversations of Goethe with Eickermann and Soret, translated by John Oxenford. Da Capo Press, 1998.

It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed fryars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.

Edward Gibbon

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Topic

Inspiration Rome

Author

Edward Gibbon

Source

Memoirs of My Life and Writings Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1794 1790s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Original Citation

Gibbon, Edward. "Memoirs of My Life and Writings." Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, edited by John Sheffield. Vol. 1, London: A Strahan and T. Cadell Jun. and W. David, 1796.

Current Citation

Gibbon, Edward. Memoirs of My Life, edited by Betty Radice. Penguin, 1984.