Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Quote
"Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy."
Author
Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Reference
Source: Letter to Nadezhda von Meck (1878)
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