José Martí on inspiration

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

Mankind is composed of two sorts of men — those who love and create, and those who hate and destroy.

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.

Carl Sagan1934–1996Cosmos (1980), p. 4

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.

Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894

• Fear

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

Pablo Picasso1881–1973

• Work