In which we ask for inspiration...

[jesshartley]

Do any of you keep a quote or saying near where you're working to inspire you?

I have a few that I keep where I can see them when I'm writing...

"All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream." - Edgar Allan Poe

"Well behaved women rarely make history" - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

and perhaps my favorite is a quote my husband sent to me. It's by John Wesley Powell, and refers to his explorations on the Colorado river, but I think it's a beautiful statement about life and love as well.

"We have an unknown distance yet to run,
an unknown river to explore.
What falls there are, we know not;
what rocks beset the channel, we know not;
what walls rise over the river, we know not;
more wonder than your deepest dreams waits for us -
beyond the next turning of the canyon walls."

Comments

[xionin.livejournal.com]

i love that poe poem. it's my favortie of his.

mine is "we are the musicmakers and we are the dreamers of the dreams." willy wonka