125 Inspiring Poetry Quotes Collection

In a world where every word can paint a thousand pictures, poetry remains one of the most profound expressions of the human experience. It speaks to our innermost thoughts, echoing the rhythms of our hearts and minds. Whether it's the delicate beauty of nature, the complexities of love, or the struggles of the soul, poetry has the power to inspire, comfort, and transform. In this curated collection of the top 125 inspiring poetry quotes, you'll find lines that resonate deeply, offering wisdom, solace, and motivation. Let these powerful words ignite your imagination and stir your spirit, as we embark on a journey through the timeless art of verse.

1. “He who mocks the infant's faithShall be mock'd in age and death.He who shall teach the child to doubtThe rotting grave shall ne'er get out.He who respects the infant's faithTriumphs over hell and death.The child's toys and the old man's reasonsAre the fruits of the two seasons.- "Auguries of Innocence” - William Blake

2. “This is where I belong, burning in these flames. For everything I have done wrong, I know I am to blame.” - Atarah L. Poling

3. “Igen: élni, míg élünk,Igen: ez a szabály.De mit csináljunk az életünkkel,Ha fáj?Élni, míg élünk” - Endre Ady

4. “If"If freckles were lovely, and day was night, And measles were nice and a lie warn't a lie, Life would be delight,-- But things couldn't go right For in such a sad plight I wouldn't be I. If earth was heaven and now was hence, And past was present, and false was true, There might be some sense But I'd be in suspense For on such a pretense You wouldn't be you. If fear was plucky, and globes were square, And dirt was cleanly and tears were glee Things would seem fair,-- Yet they'd all despair, For if here was there We wouldn't be we.” - E.E. Cummings

5. “I will never take what is never given, but I will receive to what is given.” - Michael Jones

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

7. “I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is groundUpon my flesh t'inflict another wound.Yet dare I not complain, or wish for deathWith holy Paul; lest it be thought the breathOf discontent; or that these prayers beFor weariness of life, not love of thee.” - Ben Jonson

8. “All things want to float.” - Rainer Maria Rilke

9. “I have a book of poetry I believe many should read but in each verse you'll discover it wasn't written for greed.” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

10. “If I wouldn't of spent so much time shooting spit wads at my English teacher I'd know how to punctuate good thing I normally write poetry.” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

11. “Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.” - Leonard Cohen

12. “Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.” - Leonard Cohen

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

14. “What will you do now with the gift of your left life?” - Carol Ann Duffy

15. “Man disavows, and Deity disowns me;Hell might afford my miseries a shelter;Therefore Hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths allBolted against me.Hard lot! encompassed with a thousand dangers,Weary, faint, trembling with a thousand terrors,I'm called, if vanquished, to receive a sentenceWorse than Abiram's.Him the vindictive rod of angry JusticeSent quick and howling to the centre headlong;I, fed with judgement, in a fleshy tomb, amBuried above ground.” - William Cowper

16. “Poetry will die when love and pain cease to exist.” - Kellie Elmore

17. “Des Menschen Kraft, im Dichter offenbartThe human power is revealed by poetIl potere dell'umanità si rivela nel poeta” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

18. “Poetry should be like 'Uh-huh. Baby has to have it.” - Chelsey Minnis

19. “When Hitler marched across the RhineTo take the land of France,La dame de fer decided,‘Let’s make the tyrant dance.’Let him take the land and city,The hills and every flower,One thing he will never have,The elegant Eiffel Tower.The French cut the cables,The elevators stood still,‘If he wants to reach the top,Let him walk it, if he will.’The invaders hung a swastikaThe largest ever seen.But a fresh breeze blewAnd away it flew,Never more to be seen.They hung up a second mark,Smaller than the first,But a patriot climbedWith a thought in mind:‘Never your duty shirk.’Up the iron ladyHe stealthily made his way,Hanging the bright tricolour,He heroically saved the day.Then, for some strange reason,A mystery to this day,Hitler never climbed the tower,On the ground he had to stay.At last he ordered she be razedDown to a twisted pile.A futile attack, for still she standsBeaming her metallic smile.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

20. “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

21. “أُريدُ جسدي وروحي سالميْنِ من شظيةِ الماضي” - علي محمود خضير

22. “Whiteness is the color of death, you know, not black. Wetness is life, the breeder and shaper of life. In the beginning the sun was black. So all light was absorbed before it had a chance to return. And our dreams, then, were empty.” - Jim Carroll

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

24. “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

25. “When humankind cannot produce a philosopher to speak its mind, it longs for a poet to sing its heart” - Subhan Zein

26. “La grandeza concreta de la poesía, como la de la vida, consiste en no estar hecha.” - Roberto Juarroz

27. “Talk to me in poetry. / It is all I understand.” - Linda Stitt

28. “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

29. “I don't know if I have ever truly believed that everyone deserves love. But if I had to take it one moment further into those shadowed valleys of heartfull, I would admit that I do believe that love, deserves everyone.” - Mikl Paul

30. “I negate this distance with / what it would be / to be shining you.” - Mikl Paul

31. “Keep Moving...Move forwardLet go Give inDecideand just DoProgress every dayAnd make one step forward no matter what's in your wayKeep moving, till one day you wake up and you're there.” - Emma Daley

32. “Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of life.” - Dejan Stojanovic

33. “Absolute equals nothingness.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

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

36. “Universe is the Sun watching its own self.” - Dejan Stojanovic

37. “Two forces create eternity – a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

39. “How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.” - Dejan Stojanovic

40. “The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

42. “He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

44. “His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time.” - Dejan Stojanovic

45. “This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

47. “There are no winners in real games.” - Dejan Stojanovic

48. “The game itself is bigger than the winning.” - Dejan Stojanovic

49. “You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.” - Dejan Stojanovic

50. “The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade.” - Dejan Stojanovic

51. “Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation.” - Dejan Stojanovic

52. “It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.” - Dejan Stojanovic

53. “If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.” - Dejan Stojanovic

54. “They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.” - Dejan Stojanovic

55. “Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

57. “Love is almost never simple.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

59. “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

60. “Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.” - Dejan Stojanovic

61. “History will be erased in the universal purgatory.” - Dejan Stojanovic

62. “He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.” - Dejan Stojanovic

63. “To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps.” - Dejan Stojanovic

64. “Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure.” - Dejan Stojanovic

65. “To dream on occasion is not dreaming, To love on occasion is not love.” - Dejan Stojanovic

66. “There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection through nurtured imperfection.” - Dejan Stojanovic

67. “When there is noise and crowds, there is trouble; When everything is silent and perfect, There is just perfection and nothing To fill the air.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

69. “Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain.” - Dejan Stojanovic

70. “Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.” - Dejan Stojanovic

71. “If you are only what you are, You at least have a chance Not to outsmart, But be on a par with yourself And that is worth trying.” - Dejan Stojanovic

72. “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

73. “Since nothing is absolute There is no absolute silence, Only an appearance Of temporary peace.” - Dejan Stojanovic

74. “To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

76. “To go against the grain is the secret of bravery.” - Dejan Stojanovic

77. “To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

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

80. “It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

82. “It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day.” - Dejan Stojanovic

83. “Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.” - Dejan Stojanovic

84. “With your goal you make the one.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

86. “The world cannot be translated; It can only be dreamed of and touched.” - Dejan Stojanovic

87. “To sense the peace of extinguished passionHappiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge” - Dejan Stojanovic

88. “Without nothing, everything would be nothing.” - Dejan Stojanovic

89. “From everything, nothing looks to nothing.” - Dejan Stojanovic

90. “You are not what you are; You are darkness Looking for light within.” - Dejan Stojanovic

91. “Life into death— Life’s other shape, No rupture, Only crossing.” - Dejan Stojanovic

92. “In the end, the world returns to a grain.” - Dejan Stojanovic

93. “He awaits himself while walking, out of the icy circle to escape.” - Dejan Stojanovic

94. “He knows he will be born again, And start fresh anew.” - Dejan Stojanovic

95. “When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

97. “Vandals listen only when others are stronger.If vandals are equal or strongerTheir word is the last word.” - Dejan Stojanovic

98. “Deliver thunder, GodIf you choose not to talk.” - Dejan Stojanovic

99. “Neither alive nor dead; No one lets up, No one wins.” - Dejan Stojanovic

100. “Death swallows death.” - Dejan Stojanovic

101. “One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others.” - Dejan Stojanovic

102. “And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd.” - Dejan Stojanovic

103. “My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one.” - Dejan Stojanovic

104. “Through everything I have passed but nowhere I have been.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

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

107. “Long ago an uncalled rain fell and a called-upon God stayed equally distant.” - Dejan Stojanovic

108. “Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.” - Dejan Stojanovic

109. “They are both spectacular, Life and death.” - Dejan Stojanovic

110. “sometimes I hearscreaming like a childand wake upto find it’s me” - Stephen Fitzsimons

111. “ 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

112. “Always dip your toe in the past before stepping into the future” - Benny Bellamacina

113. “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

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

115. “...I pluck every day from my sweater or chair, red hairs...strands of significance, traces of you in my life ...” - John Geddes

116. “...you can be talented as a wolf is breathtakingly fierce...silver and gray, like smoke in the trees - but what do you do with terrible beauty?...” - John Geddes

117. “...careful the morning lest it wake from slumber the city half-encumbered by the morning mist ...” - John Geddes

118. “...across the snowy field the barn light gleams - it's the loneliness of November twilight...” - John Geddes

119. “...strands of your hair and tendrils of the wind spin into nothingness the memories of that day...” - John Geddes

120. “......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

121. “ فما أُشــرِف ُ الأبقاع َ إلاّ صبابة َ ~~~ ولا أُنـشــِـدُ الأشعار إلاّ تداويــاو قدْ يجمع ُ الله ُ الشــتــيــتـيْــن ِ بعدما ~~~ يظـُـنـّـان كُلّ الظن ِّ أن ْ لا تلاقــِــيـَا ” - قيس بن الملوح

122. “Oh dear sunday, I want to sleep in your arms and have fun day.” - Santosh Kalwar

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

124. “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

125. “Only union with you gives joy. The rest if tearing down one building to put up another.” - Rumi