Sources of Inspiration

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1. Sleep is one, mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also, & rarely, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.
2. Solitary converse with nature is a second (or perhaps the first) and there are ejaculated sweet & dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah the spring days, summer dawns & October woods. 
3. New poetry; what is new to me ..
4. Conversation...   -- Emerson in His Journals  (Jan, 1862)

The same fountains still do and will continue to inspire humanity far into the infinite future.