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Inspiration   /ˌɪnspərˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Inspiration

noun
1.
Arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity.
2.
A product of your creative thinking and work.  Synonym: brainchild.  "After years of work his brainchild was a tangible reality"
3.
A sudden intuition as part of solving a problem.
4.
(theology) a special influence of a divinity on the minds of human beings.  Synonym: divine guidance.
5.
Arousing to a particular emotion or action.  Synonym: stirring.
6.
The act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing.  Synonyms: aspiration, breathing in, inhalation, intake.



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"Inspiration" Quotes from Famous Books



... enchanted region: In elegance of thinking and fertility of imagination, few of our English authors have approached him, and no writers have such power as he to awake the spirit of poetry in others. Cowley owns that he derived inspiration from him; and I have heard the celebrated Mr. James Thomson, the author of the Seasons, and justly esteemed one of our best descriptive poets, say, that he formed himself upon Spenser; and how closely he pursued the model, and how nobly he has imitated him, whoever reads his Castle of Indolence ...
— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Volume I. • Theophilus Cibber
... short story our country has known found his inspiration and produced his best work in California. It is now nearly forty years since "The Luck of Roaring Camp" appeared, and a line of successors, more or less worthy, have been following along the trail ...
— The Case of Summerfield • William Henry Rhodes
... irreverent. You must continually bear in mind the fact that he didn't know the meaning of the word; that he knew nothing about the Bible, nor dreamed that the words which so delighted him were those of inspiration, sounding down through the ages for the peace and ...
— Three People • Pansy
... historian enshrines in his work the labours of all the rest. Yet there are necessarily some men whose work stands out as being more immediately seizable than that of others; in the period of whose care the lamp of inspiration has seemed to burn more brightly. In a matter of this kind I cannot pretend to be a judge, but only to state my own experience and indebtedness; and in my work I have been chiefly helped by Las Casas, indirectly of course by Ferdinand Columbus, Herrera, Oviedo, Bernaldez, Navarrete, Asensio, ...
— Christopher Columbus, Complete • Filson Young
... his strings as if by inspiration and after a breathless pause of admiration among the audience, was received with a clamour of applause, which seemed to show that the name and tendency, as well as the execution of the tune, was in the highest degree acceptable to all the ...
— Redgauntlet • Sir Walter Scott


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