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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