Albert Schweitzer Quotes

We can set the spark that lights the fire.

You can't start a fire without a spark

To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.

Looking back, fire images have been constant in my poetry. As a boy, it was my job to light the fire each morning, and I remember the celebratory bonfires at the end of the war. It was from staring into fire that I began my first poetry.

A spark can become a flame, a flame a fire.

One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world.

When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.

A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of the poem will unravel from that catalyst.

I sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil.

The spark from a tiny star can ignite the plains.

The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax.

From a small spark, Great flame has risen.

Do not let your fire go out.

a small spark can start a great fire

For each book, there's a back story of where the idea came from. Sometimes it's derived from a current event or topic of discussion. Often it begins with a character. And often, I have NO idea what sparked the idea. It's just there.

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.

It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which...you may find really marvellous ideas.

In the midst of my skeptical, cynical, often pessimistic nature exists a slender capacity to believe, if only temporarily, in a guiding, unseen power, and whenever this happens, I go with it. That's what inspiration is. You don't get it from the gods. You make it.

Most of my books begin with an image or a voice - one small thing - and I don't know what it is going to become.

Once you've got an inspired spark, you've got to strive. You've gotta keep putting wood on it, so they say, to keep it burning. But then there's the alchemist side of it, that's the fire that's burning but it don't burn.

You just pray that something is going to hit you like lightning. Like a movie, a book, or a photograph, a painting, something that you can riff on it and learn more about it and explore it, and just go on a journey with it. So lots of times when I choose a theme, I'll also incorporate other things that I'm doing at that period.

A spark could be enough to set them ablaze.

Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.

There are just long gaps where I can't find a point of insertion, I can't find a good opening line, I can't find a mood that I want to write into. But once I do, once a line falls out of the air, or I get a little inkling of a subject and I recognize that, it's like the sense that a game has started.