Inspiration

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Inspiration is a notion originally religious and today also applied for secular artistic composition.

Literally, the word means "breathed upon," and it has its origins in both Hellenism and Hebraism in the west. In the earliest discussions of inspiration (in the works of Homer and Hesiod), the ritualistic and divine origins of the breath of a god are important. In Hebraism the biblical text and words of prophets were considered to be originated by divine inspiration, by the Holy Spirit. Inspiration in artistic composition refers to an irrational and unconscious burst of creativity.

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Inspiration comes at the oddest times, usually when you least expect it. When it does come, don’t shrug it off… be inspired!
- Jerry Grant Blakeney

No man was ever great without divine inspiration.
- Cicero

The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from the seeds of the Divine mind sown in man.
- Ovid

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
- George Eliot

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.
- Fulke Greville