Inspiration
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"I dare say […] that Byron and de Sade […] have been perhaps the two greatest inspirations of our moderns, one openly and visibly, the other clandestine - though not too clandestine."--Sainte-Beuve, 1843, tr. Geerinck |
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Inspiration ( (from the Latin in + spirare, meaning "to breathe into") refers to the act of inspiring or breathing in; breath; specif. (Physiol.), the drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm; -- the opposite of expiration. Metaphorically, it can refer to the act or power of exercising an elevating or stimulating influence upon the intellect or emotions; the result of such influence which quickens or stimulates; as, the inspiration of occasion, of art, etc.;or ; a supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies men to receive and communicate divine truth; also, the truth communicated.
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Disambiguation
Inspiration may refer to:
- Artistic inspiration, sudden creativity in artistic production
- Biblical inspiration, the doctrine in Judeo-Christian theology concerned with the divine origin of the Bible
- Inhalation, the movement of air into the lungs
In film:
- Inspiration (film), a 1915 film starring Audrey Munson
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