Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quotes about Inspiration

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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Inspiration, Men, Age

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1875). “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell”, p.178

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Women, Inspiration, Thinking

Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “The Poet at the Breakfast Table”, p.90, Reprint Services Corporation