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What is inspiration? Inspiration (from the Latin inspirare, meaning “to breathe into”) is an unconscious intense feeling of creativity in a musical, literary, or visual art or any other artistic endeavor.

The concept of being inspired has its beginnings in both Hebraism and Hellenism. The ancient Greeks believed that “enthusiasm” or inspiration came from the gods Apollo and Dionysus, as well as the. Similarly, in the Ancient Norse religions, inspiration derives from the gods, such as Odin. Inspiration is also a divine matter in Hebrew poetics. In the “Book of Amos” the prophet speaks of being overwhelmed by God’s voice and compelled to speak. In Christianity, inspiration is a gift of the Holy Spirit.

Today our sense of inspiration often comes from the 18th-century philosopher John Locke. Locke proposed a model of the human mind in which ideas associate or resonate with one another in the mind. In the 19th century, Romantic poets such as…