“There is no true poetry unconcious inspiration.”
How to Read a Poem And Fall in Love with Poetry (1998)
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Source: The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965 [1962]), Ch.VII Further Observations on Homer <!-- p.224, 1965 paper -->
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“Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.”
Poesia (1891)

“A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.”
Page 37 https://books.google.com/books?id=pQARAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA37.
Music: An Art and a Language (1920), Polyphonic Music; Sebastian Bach (Ch. III)

Part I : Contemporary Issues in Science, Ch. 1 : "The Scientist as Rebel"; this first appeared in New York Review of Books (25 May 1995).
The Scientist As Rebel (2006)
Context: There is no such thing as a unique scientific vision, any more than there is a unique poetic vision. Science is a mosaic of partial and conflicting visions. But there is one common element in these visions. The common element is rebellion against the restrictions imposed by the locally prevailing culture, Western or Eastern as the case may be. It is no more Western than it is Arab or Indian or Japanese or Chinese. Arabs and Indians and Japanese and Chinese had a big share in the development of modern science. And two thousand years earlier, the beginnings of science were as much Babylonian and Egyptian as Greek. One of the central facts about science is that it pays no attention to East and West and North and South and black and yellow and white. It belongs to everybody who is willing to make the effort to learn it. And what is true of science is true of poetry.... Poetry and science are gifts given to all of humanity.
“What we call inspiration in poetry is usually a visitation of words and rhythms rather than ideas.”
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