英语名人名言：Inspiration 灵感

　　Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness1 - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis2 of self- consciousness.

　　Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990)

　　We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

　　Frank Tibolt

　　You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

　　Jack3 London (1876 - 1916)

　　Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.

　　Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)

　　I decided4 that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime5 messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

　　Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), In "Apology," sct. 21, by Plato.

　　Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration6.

　　Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), Harper's Monthly, 1932

　　Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

　　Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), Harper's Monthly, 1932

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