inspiration (n.)
- afflatus
- ambition
- animation
- animus
- anticipation
- apocalypse
- ardor
- arousal
- aspiration
- assurance
- awakening
- basis
- brainchild
- brainstorm
- brainwave
- breath
- breathing
- calling
- cause
- clairvoyance
- conception
- consideration
- cough
- creativity
- crosscurrent
- current
- daemon
- demon
- downdraft
- draft
- drive
- ebullience
- education
- elan
- encouragement
- energy
- enlightenment
- enthusiasm
- epiphany
- exhalation
- exhilaration
- expiration
- fancy
- feeling
- fire
- firing
- flash
- gasp
- genius
- goal
- ground
- guide
- gulp
- gusto
- hack
- hiccup
- ideal
- illumination
- impulse
- incentive
- incitement
- infection
- inflow
- influence
- infusion
- inhalation
- inhalator
- inrush
- insight
- instinct
- insufflation
- intention
- intuition
- intuitionism
- lodestar
- mainspring
- matter
- monsoon
- motive
- muse
- mysticism
- notion
- pant
- passion
- poesy
- precognition
- principle
- prophecy
- provocation
- puff
- reason
- reassurance
- reflex
- respiration
- revelation
- sake
- satori
- score
- scuba
- sigh
- sneeze
- sniff
- sniffle
- snore
- snoring
- snuff
- snuffle
- soul
- source
- sparkle
- spirit
- spring
- spur
- sternutation
- stertor
- stimulation
- stimulus
- stream
- suck
- sucking
- suction
- suggestion
- suspiration
- talent
- theophany
- undercurrent
- updraft
- urge
- vigor
- vision
- vocation
- wheeze
- wind
- zeal
It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
The gloomy companions of a disturbed imagination, the melancholy madness of poetry without the inspiration.
Letters of Junius. Letter vii. To Sir W. Draper.
