INSPIRATION

The other day, I was watching a T´V show. They were talking about inspiration. That, made me think about the amount of things, that are out there helping us to pop out our creativity: Stars, people, pictures, the sunset, the beach, songs, nature, and so on. For me, my inspiration usually comes from words. Better than that, it comes from written words.

So, here it is, some of the words that inspire me as a person and as a writer.

1.- Out of the night that covers me, black as the pit from pole to pole. I thanks whatever gods may be, for my unconquerable soul.  In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeoning of fate, my head is bloody, but unbowed.  Beyond this place of wrath and tears, looms but the horror of the shade  and yet, the menace of the years finds, and shall find me, unafraid.  It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishment the scroll.

I am the master of my fate - I am the captain of my soul.

Invictus, by William Ernest Henle

2.- I'd like to get away from earth awhile

And then come back to it and begin over.

May no fate willfully misunderstand me

And half grant what I wish and snatch me away

Not to return. Earth's the right place for love:

I don't know where it's likely to go better.

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree,

And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk

Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,

But dipped its top and set me down again.

That would be good both going and coming back.

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

Birches, by Robert Frost

3.- All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems... But all these stars are silent. You-You alone will have stars as no one else has them... In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars will be laughing when you look at the sky at night. You, only you, will have stars that can laugh! And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me... You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure... It will be as if, in place of the stars, I had given you a great number of little bells that knew how to laugh” 

The little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 

Note: Image: Formentera Spain, 2015.