87 Inspiring Poetry Quotes

Poetry has long been a powerful medium for expressing deep emotions, capturing fleeting moments, and inspiring profound thoughts. In a world where distractions are constant, the elegance and brevity of a well-crafted verse can offer a refreshing pause, touching the heart and sparking the imagination. This collection gathers 87 of the most inspiring poetry quotes, each chosen for its ability to resonate, uplift, and provoke introspection. Whether you're a lover of poetry or just beginning to explore its beauty, these quotes promise to provide insight and inspiration, shedding light on the human experience and the world around us.

1. “The emmet's inch and eagle's mileMake lame philosophy to smile.He who doubts from what he seesWill ne'er believe, do what you please.- "Auguries of Innocence” - William Blake

2. “For what is a dream if not love first felt and what is mystery if not life itself” - Giselle V. Steele

3. “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

4. “Should I get lost, just point me in the direction of a poem.” - Betty Bleen

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

6. “The greatness of poetry comes from its struggle to express the rapture of the soul in the contemplation of beauty.” - Anthony S. Maulucci

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

8. “When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.” - Adrienne Rich

9. “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

10. “I'd rather write poetry than watch TV it allows me to share the wide screen in me.” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

11. “If the colour of life turns grey turn the palette the other way” - Benny Bellamacina

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

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

14. “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

15. “the light too brief to finish any work —the woman seeks to amplify the dark” - Leatha Kendrick

16. “Y yo no tendré miedo de morenas ni rubias, pues cerraré los ojos y te diré: soy tuya.” - Alfonsina Storni

17. “The most procession that ever comes to a man in this world is a women's heart.” - Josiah G Holland AKA Timothy Titcomb

18. “Перегортаю записник,Коли нестає сил.Люди зо зброєю:— Вірші можна писати олівцем,На старих ґазетах, кривавих сорочках,Вугликом на бетонній стіні,В окопах,Коли на тебе плюють І стають чоботами…” - Юрій Завадський

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

20. “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

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

22. “It must have been an endless breathing in: between the wish to know and the wish to praise there was no seam.” - Margaret Atwood

23. “ولكن كلّ من يَمضي يترُكُ في صدري حصاة صغيرة” - علي محمود خضير

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

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

26. “I want to gossip about forever / against the part of your back that / is mine.” - Mikl Paul

27. “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

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

29. “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

30. “Darkness does not age; nothing is always nothing” - Dejan Stojanovic

31. “Procreation annihilates eternity.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

33. “Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

35. “In the lie of truth lies the truth.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

37. “Either you will be you or you will not be at all.” - 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. “If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than La Côte d'Azur.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

42. “Strangers are endearing because you don’t know them yet.” - Dejan Stojanovic

43. “What we call life is only talk of nature.” - Dejan Stojanovic

44. “Disease often comes with a smiling face.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

46. “Hope without love is hopeless.” - Dejan Stojanovic

47. “A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.” - Dejan Stojanovic

48. “Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.” - Dejan Stojanovic

49. “There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.” - Dejan Stojanovic

50. “Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.” - Dejan Stojanovic

51. “Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.” - Dejan Stojanovic

52. “Some people complain there are too many people on earth, Some people complain about secret societies, Some people accuse others of not being able to wake up early. Almost all people complain about something.” - Dejan Stojanovic

53. “Those who hate rain hate life.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

55. “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

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

57. “To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

59. “To expect to be kissed having bad breath is the secret of a fool.” - Dejan Stojanovic

60. “Good is not always good.” - Dejan Stojanovic

61. “When within yourself you find the road, the right road will open.” - Dejan Stojanovic

62. “In every sound, the hidden silence sleeps.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

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

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

66. “If emptiness is endless, then everything rests in emptiness.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

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

69. “Earth is the source of light.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

71. “New Rome will be destroyedBy the attacks of new vandals.God always remains silent.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

73. “You ask how it is possible to be your own father and son. You should seek answers, although it is better to anticipate some, to be the light and dream.” - Dejan Stojanovic

74. “Instead of imitating me, you simply loiter.” - Dejan Stojanovic

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

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

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

78. “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

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

80. “I strike the ground with the soles of my feet and life rises up my legs, spreads up my skeleton, takes possession of me, drives away distress and sweetens my memory. The world trembles.” - Isabel Allende

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

82. “...my dreams are tangled in images of stars and clouds and firelight - we go camping at night - it's my lucid dream of being with you...” - John Geddes

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

84. “......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

85. “Thoughts as warm as a silky summer rain, flowing over the edge of my soul's gentle.not tides returning them along the shoreline to laughing gulls.” - Basith

86. “I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;Her coat is one of the tabby kind,with tiger stripes and lepard spots.” - T.S. Eliot

87. “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