His stately ship of life, having weathered the severest storms of a troubled century, is anchored in tranquil waters, proofthatcourageand faith and zest for freedom are truly indestructible. The record of his triumphant passage will inspire free hearts all over the globe.

-Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)
  On conferring honorary US citizenship on Winston Churchill, 9  Apr.

Books and the Man I sing, the first who brings The Smithfield Muses to the Ear of Kings. Say great Patricians! (since your selves inspire These wond'rous works; so Jove and Fate require) Say from what cause, in vain decry'd and curst, Still Dunce the second reigns like Dunce the first?

-Pope, Alexander
  The Dunciad, bk.1, l.1^6.

Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futuritycastsuponthepresent; thewordswhichexpress what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
A Defence of Poetry.

Yes,Iama fatal man,Madame Fribsbi.Toinspirehopeless passion is my destiny.

-Thackeray,William Makepeace
^50  Mirobolant. Pendennis, ch.23.