Inspiration is an interesting word.
It ultimately comes from the Latin word inspirare, and this from spiro.. both being related to the effect of breathe or carrying air into your lungs, although it was also related to live, in general, or to fill the body with something that allows one to live.
Related words are spirit for example, normally used as synonym of ghost in modern language.
Religious people can say that God is a matter of inspiration. Well, even when I am not a religious person, I can believe this.
Take for example one marvelous piece of music, the "Miserere mei, Deus" written by Allegri more than 300 years ago. It has been said that the pope at the time asked Allegri to write this piece for exclusive performance within the Sistine Chapel only. Nobody listened this beautiful polychoral composition outside this chapel, until the fourteen years old Mozart attended this service and re-wrote it entirely by memory!
Nice story, formidable inspiration...More information about this can be found here.
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