120 Inspiring Poetry Quotes

Poetry has long been a source of inspiration, offering us windows into the depths of emotion, the expanse of human experience, and the beauty of language. From the pens of the great poets of the past to modern wordsmiths shaping the future, poetry captures the essence of what it means to be alive. In this collection, we have gathered 120 inspiring poetry quotes that illuminate, reflect, and stir the soul. Whether you're seeking motivation, solace, or just a moment of beauty, these quotes promise to ignite a spark of inspiration in your day. Join us on this lyrical journey and let the words guide you into realms of thought and feeling previously unexplored.

1. “I yearn to make these scars disappearAnd to forget about the past.To throw away all of my fearsAnd to be happy at last.” - Atarah L. Poling

2. “ink marks the page/where you execute your will like a doe announcing an/ox-stern mate with a single, bleary blink.” - Melissa Lee-Houghton

3. “PricklyWhen I'm feelingporcupine-y,I get nasty,I get whiny.Stay away orI might stick you.My sharp words arequills to prick you.” - Laura Purdie Salas

4. “Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.” - Jalal Ad-Din Rumi

5. “I see what I want of Love... I see horses making the meadow dance, fifty guitars sighing, and a swarm of bees suckling the wild berries, and I close my eyes until I see our shadow behind this dispossessed place... I see what I want of people: their desire to long for anything, their lateness in getting to work and their hurry to return to their folk... and their need to say: Good Morning...” - Mahmoud Darwish

6. “I love with love, so that we all may love." ~ Amunhotep El Bey” - Amunhotep El Bey

7. “The will of life and death, never share the same motivation...we all know that love is the ultimate motive to die for...but let’s not kid ourselves......we all know the ultimate motive to rise back from the dead is vengeance.” - unauthor

8. “Poetry is never abandon it is only remixed.” - James Schwartz

9. “Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.” - Mahmoud Darwish

10. “Sometimes when I'm aloneI Cry, Cause I am on my own.The tears I cry are bitter and warm.They flow with life but take no formI Cry because my heart is torn.I find it difficult to carry on. If I had an ear to confide in, I would cry among my treasured friend, but who do you know that stops that long, to help another carry on.The world moves fast and it would rather pass by.Then to stop and see what makes one cry, so painful and sad. And sometimes...I Cry and no one cares about why.” - Tupac Shakur

11. “In fact she herself once blamed meKyprogeneiabecause I prayed this word:I want.” - Sappho

12. “I is for immortality, which for some poets is a necessary compensation. Presumably miserable in this life, they will be remembered when the rest of us are long forgotten. None of them asks about the quality of that remembrance--what it will be like to crouch in the dim hallways of somebody's mind until the moment of recollection occurs, or to be lifted off suddenly and forever into the pastures of obscurity. Most poets know better than to concern themselves with such things. They know the chances are better than good that their poems will die when they do and never be heard of again, that they'll be replaced by poems sporting a new look in a language more current. They also know that even if individual poems die, though in some cases slowly, poetry will continue: that its subjects, it constant themes, are less liable to change than fashions in language, and that this is where an alternate, less lustrous immortality might be. We all know that a poem can influence other poems, remain alive in them, just as previous poems are alive in it. Could we not say, therefore, that individual poems succeed most by encouraging revisions of themselves and inducing their own erasure? Yes, but is this immortality, or simply a purposeful way of being dead?” - Mark Strand

13. “Hombre pequeñito que jaula me das. Digo pequeñito porque no me entiendes, ni me entenderás. Tampoco te entiendo, pero mientras tanto ábreme la jaula que quiero escapar. Hombre pequeñito, te amé media hora, no me pidas más.” - Alfonsina Storni

14. “POD RALOMRalo tvog blagog čelicnog pogledaizbrazdalo je moje srcei iz te zemlje preoranecvet rastanka je zaridaoDanasu istom graduu kome smo se rastalijedino ja vidim tvoju statuuna trgu IzgubljenjaHiljade dana vec je prošlood dana kada smo se poslednji put ljubilinekad se gledam u ogledalonemajući hrabrosti da se obrijemI to uvek padne ponedeljkomponedeljkom kad su berbernice zatvorenei onda se dosađujemI onda otvaram prozorzovem tei ti si tusa zlatnim brijačem i srebrnom četkomu paklenoj kadi tvog poslednjeg ljubavnikasa četrdeset konja od groma i vetraI letim tii brijem se kako se nijedan princ nije obrijaoi kupam se sa sto pedeset na satkako se niko na svetusem onih kojima se tako nešto već desilookupao nijeNe pitam te čak ni kamo idemone zato što me ne zanimaveć zato što znamda ni ti sama ne znašI kao što ti to umeš postavljaš mi pitalicete kada je rođena smrtte kada će život konačno umretionda zašto se smejemi zašto smo se ono rastaliZa volanom je čovek plemenita rodaa ni on ne znako mu je sve u kolimaI ja onako još nasapunjanih rukuzatvaram mu očiUU uu! pogodi ko jeI kola tako polete u stranu da...Ali u zidini zime uvek će postojati otvorkroz koji će se moći videti ono najlepše letoSmotana gvožđurija prelivena krvljueksplozija radostiA da ih i ne zovešsrećne uspomene javljaju se tu sami vraćaju se na svoja mesta kraj neugašene vatreVreme ne zna koje je dobadoba ne zna koje je vremeJednoga dana talas toploteoboje nas je zahvatiomodrica srećekoja se više ne da izbrisati.” - Jacques Prévert

15. “The sea waves stirred before methey dashed against the rocksLike a mermaid rising from its depthscurled white sea foam were her locks...” - Giselle V. Steele

16. “No one understands now. Those who couldhear a song this deeply vanished long ago.” - Li Po

17. “And when I feelthe masks beneathcrumble and fade withtime I build new onesto replace the old."Masks"- Sins Within” - Shay Leigh

18. “so quiet now my dearest knightyour armor shines white stillfor my lips shall not say the wordsthat make you flee with fear"White Knight” - Shay Leigh

19. “I offer you my soulWithin are my flawsMy grace, my kindnessMy love for you"The Offer” - Shay Leigh

20. “poems are small moments of enlightenment” - Natalie Goldberg

21. “Love crosses the sky \ on a peculiar disturbing night.” - Shannon A Thompson

22. “As palavras que te envio são interditasaté, meu amor, pelo halo das searas;se alguma regressasse, nem já reconheciao teu nome nas suas curvas claras.” - Eugénio de Andrade

23. “Unforgiveness,splinter in your breastbone, lives there lodged like a small tree.Withers in winter, looms in spring. Its fruit is sweet on first bite, then turns into the taste of your own flesh.” - Katerina Stoykova Klemer

24. “there are these places on your poem, / where I want to write bodies.” - Mikl Paul

25. “You Know love when you see it, hear it, and feel it." ~ Amunhotep El Bey” - Amunhotep El Bey

26. “Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end.” - Dejan Stojanovic

27. “Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.” - Dejan Stojanovic

28. “When following God, Zero we never find.” - Dejan Stojanovic

29. “God is busy and has no time for you.” - Dejan Stojanovic

30. “The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.” - Dejan Stojanovic

31. “Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words.” - Dejan Stojanovic

32. “When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.” - Dejan Stojanovic

33. “Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.” - Dejan Stojanovic

34. “Teaching others, he corrected himself.” - Dejan Stojanovic

35. “After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?” - Dejan Stojanovic

36. “We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.” - Dejan Stojanovic

37. “We need knew knights, but without swords.” - Dejan Stojanovic

38. “Say No! Accept the burdens of revenge.” - Dejan Stojanovic

39. “Wherever there is somebody else, a war is not far away.” - Dejan Stojanovic

40. “Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.” - Dejan Stojanovic

41. “Now that we are all so smart, we don’t easily find resolutions.” - Dejan Stojanovic

42. “We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.” - Dejan Stojanovic

43. “Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.” - Dejan Stojanovic

44. “For a game, you don’t need a teacher.” - Dejan Stojanovic

45. “Christ did not ask or want to be what he was not.” - Dejan Stojanovic

46. “We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards.” - Dejan Stojanovic

47. “He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret.” - Dejan Stojanovic

48. “They grew; they did not talk about growing.” - Dejan Stojanovic

49. “For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else’s face.” - Dejan Stojanovic

50. “There are many secrets; don’t try to resolve them all.” - Dejan Stojanovic

51. “If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single word, but that would be tragic.” - Dejan Stojanovic

52. “Forget decorated generals, tell me about Private Ryan.” - Dejan Stojanovic

53. “Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.” - Dejan Stojanovic

54. “Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.” - Dejan Stojanovic

55. “To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside an enslaved personality, to become impersonal by transforming into sand, into water, into light.” - Dejan Stojanovic

56. “There can be no forced inspiration.” - Dejan Stojanovic

57. “There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky.” - Dejan Stojanovic

58. “If birth is a manifestation of life, death is another.” - Dejan Stojanovic

59. “Every thought about death takes a moment of life away.” - Dejan Stojanovic

60. “He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door.” - Dejan Stojanovic

61. “There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.” - Dejan Stojanovic

62. “I fly through memory to find a newborn love.” - Dejan Stojanovic

63. “We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery.” - Dejan Stojanovic

64. “When all is lost, there is still a memory.” - Dejan Stojanovic

65. “All people are enslaved by something.” - Dejan Stojanovic

66. “Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer.” - Dejan Stojanovic

67. “Possible impossibility emerges From an impossible possibility, Or possibly, impossible possibility Blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility.” - Dejan Stojanovic

68. “Possible is more a matter of attitude, A matter of decision, to choose Among the impossible possibilities, When one sound opportunity Becomes a possible solution.” - Dejan Stojanovic

69. “Dream by making and make by dreaming.” - Dejan Stojanovic

70. “Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success We forget the easiness of free beautyLying sad right around the corner, Only an instant removed, Unnoticed and squandered.” - Dejan Stojanovic

71. “There is only as much space, only as much time, Only as much desire, only as many words, Only as many pages, only as much ink To accept all of us at light-speed Hurrying into the Promised Land Of oblivion that is waiting for us sooner or later.” - Dejan Stojanovic

72. “To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.” - Dejan Stojanovic

73. “To write good poems is the secret of brevity.” - Dejan Stojanovic

74. “We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented.” - Dejan Stojanovic

75. “I imagined I was God for a millisecond And became speechless for a long time.” - Dejan Stojanovic

76. “Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.” - Dejan Stojanovic

77. “It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.” - Dejan Stojanovic

78. “Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless.” - Dejan Stojanovic

79. “The eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man.” - Dejan Stojanovic

80. “If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?” - Dejan Stojanovic

81. “From nothing comes everything.” - Dejan Stojanovic

82. “When he is most powerful, nothing does he become.” - Dejan Stojanovic

83. “Every star was darker than the night before it awoke.” - Dejan Stojanovic

84. “Although personal calling I sense,Who am I? even if I am, I don't know.” - Dejan Stojanovic

85. “What does infinity mean to you? Are you not infinity and yourself?” - Dejan Stojanovic

86. “I can see myself before myself—A being through dark scenery.” - Dejan Stojanovic

87. “Into the day as by dream I swim To the music of nourished meaning.” - Dejan Stojanovic

88. “The world contained in a seed, Determined by its program.” - Dejan Stojanovic

89. “The world is always open, Waiting to be discovered.” - Dejan Stojanovic

90. “When the star dies, Its eye closes; tired of watching, It flies back to its first bright dream.” - Dejan Stojanovic

91. “All dust is the same dust. Temporarily separated To go peacefully And enjoy the eternal nap.” - Dejan Stojanovic

92. “Life eats life to live.” - Dejan Stojanovic

93. “I enjoy it when the world smiles; the more smiles, the warmer I am.” - Dejan Stojanovic

94. “I travel, always arriving in the same place.” - Dejan Stojanovic

95. “With me: one minus one = one; with you: it’s zero. Here lies the only difference.” - Dejan Stojanovic

96. “I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?” - Dejan Stojanovic

97. “Wherever I go, I meet myself.” - Dejan Stojanovic

98. “In a myriad of ways you tell one truth.” - Dejan Stojanovic

99. “From one bell all the bells toll.” - Dejan Stojanovic

100. “We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side.” - Dejan Stojanovic

101. “ عن الصمود ’’لو يذكرُ الزيتون غارسَهُلصار الزيت دمعا !يا حكمة الأجدادلو من لحمنا نعطيك درعا !لكن سهل الريح ,لا يعطي عبيد الريح زرعا !إنّا سنقلع بالرموشالشوكَ والأحزانَ... قلعا !وإلام نحمل عارنا وصليبنا!والكونُ يسعى...سنظل في الزيتون خُضرتَه’وحولَ الأرضِ درعا” - اوراق الزيتون محمود درويش

102. “A language is a map of our failures” - Adrienne Rich

103. “...sombra que sucesivo anhela el viento...” - Francisco de Quevedo

104. “...soy un fue y un será y un es cansado...” - Francisco de Quevedo

105. “...mi corazón es reino del espanto.” - Francisco de Quevedo

106. “There's two ways to become a famous Poet, find that one person that knows somebody, that knows somebody, that knows somebody.Or die trying” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

107. “The parts of me that hurt the worst want me to write something for them, but I can't. I don't know what to say. I'm lost in all this sadness, and so are they.” - Ashly Lorenzana

108. “Before she knew it, she was just another set of eyes in a dusty attic, waiting for the stairs to creak.” - Kelly Moran

109. “...freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin - inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night...” - John Geddes

110. “...the wind hums low with sweet exultation, sings its lullaby, while you sleep ...” - John Geddes

111. “...I recall that day on the beach - the sand so brilliant, the clouds so massive, and the wind punishing your hair...” - John Geddes

112. “......and not out of fear or loneliness, but only to find myself again... for we have come too far my Life, to turn back now...” - John Geddes

113. “يَـقـولُ أُنـاسٌ عَلَّ مَجنونَ عامِرٍ ~~~~ يَـرومُ سُـلـوّاً قُـلتُ أَنّى لِما بِيابِـيَ الـيَـأسُ أَو داءُ الهُيامِ أَصابَني ~~~~ فَـإِيّـاكَ عَـنّي لا يَكُن بِكَ ما بِياإِذا مـا اِستَطالَ الدَهرُ يا أُمَّ مالِكٍ ~~~~ فَـشَـأنُ الـمَنايا القاضِياتِ وَشانِياإِذا اِكـتَحَلَت عَيني بِعَينِكِ لَم تَزَل ~~~~ بِـخَـيـرٍ وَجَلَّت غَمرَةً عَن فُؤادِيافَأَنتِ الَّتي إِن شِئتِ أَشقَيتِ عِيشَتي ~~~ وَأَنـتِ الَّـتي إِن شِئتِ أَنعَمتِ بالِيا” - قيس بن الملوح

114. “En fin, llego a casa. Prendo la tele. Hay una lucha de box. Escucho que alguien dice: "den una buena pelea". Yo pienso que ninguna pelea puede ser buena y la apago. Tomo el periódico. Leo que "el valor del petróleo se incrementa". Para mí el petróleo no tiene ningún valor y lo cierro.” - David Meza

115. “ولأنني رغم القبور..ورغم موت الأرضأرفض أن أموت” - فاروق جويدة

116. “life is first boredom, then fear.whether or not we use it, it goes,and leaves what something hidden from us chose,and age, and then the only end of age.” - Philip Larkin

117. “Bezgove ure"To je stari bezeg za hišo. To so bezgove ure.Grozljivo zelena tesnoba listov.Črnikasta barva jagod. Grenki bezgov čas pred nevihto. Pod zidom vetje kopriv.Nepokošena trava.Za zidom soba.Preležani duh samskih stricev.Votlo bezgovo steblo nedelje.Poobedna tihota.Rdečkasti peclji jagod.Njihov plehki, pusti okusv bezgovem spancu.Sladke sline zorijov medlečih ustih dečkov,ki slonijo ob bezgovih bokih hiš.” - Kajetan Kovič

118. “...feel the fierce way desiretourniquets itself around you andclingsClubland South of Market tweak-chic trannies powder their noses frombullet-shaped compacts and flick their forkedtongues like switchblades as they burn the nightdown bleed day to night to day toMission sidewalks where pythons hidetwenty dollar balloons beneath their tongues whichget bartered in smiles quicker than a coke buzz andtossed out through the cracksCottonmouth kissescamouflage emotions andstrike with a vengeancewhen hewants and shewants and theywant and Iwon'tGenet was right, I supposewhen he wrote "The only wayto avoid the horror of horror isto give in to it"it'sthe nature ofthe economy of thebusiness it's thenature ofthings...” - Clint Catalyst

119. “i was really into communal living and we were all /such free spirits, crossing the country we were /nomads and artists and no one ever stopped / to think about how the one working class housemate / was whoring to support a gang of upper middle class / deadheads with trust fund safety nets and connecticut / childhoods, everyone was too busy processing their isms / to deal with non-issues like class....and it’s just so cool / how none of them have hang-ups about / sex work they’re all real / open-minded real / revolutionary you know / the legal definition of pimp is / one who lives off the earnings of / a prostitute, one or five or / eight and i’d love to stay and / eat some of the stir fry i’ve been cooking / for y’all but i’ve got to go fuck / this guy so we can all get stoned and / go for smoothies tomorrow, save me / some rice, ok?” - Michelle Tea

120. “We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.” - Emily Dickinson