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==Inspiration==
It means receiving something which is beyond you, which was not within you; to open yourself to an influence which is outside your individual conscious being.
Fundamentally it is a moment of openness to something which was not within your personal consciousness, which comes from outside and rushes into you and makes you do something. This is the widest formula that can be given.
Now, generally, when people say: “Oh! he is an inspired poet”, it means he has received something from high above and expressed it in a remarkable manner. But one should rather say that his inspiration is of a high quality. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/5-august-1953#p17,p19,p20</ref>
All poetry is an inspiration, a thing breathed into the thinking organ from above; it is recorded in the mind, but is born in the higher principle of direct knowledge or ideal vision which surpasses mind. It is in reality a revelation. The prophetic or revealing power sees the substance; the inspiration perceives the right expression. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/03/the-sources-of-poetry#p1</ref>
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