Famous quotes containing the words prophetic and/or inspiration:
“Ghost. The serpent that did sting thy fathers life
Now wears his crown.
Hamlet. O my prophetic soul!
My uncle?
Ghost. Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Poets should be lawgivers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead, the civil code, and the days work. But now the two things seem irreconcilably parted.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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