Free Inspirational Quotes by Famous Poets [PDF]

1. “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” — Langston Hughes

2. “And still, I rise.” — Maya Angelou

3. “You are not your age, nor the size of the clothes you wear. You are the books you read, the words you speak, the way you love, and the things you believe in.” — Charlotte Eriksson

4. “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.” — Emily Dickinson

5. “Do not go gentle into that good night, but rage, rage against the dying of the light.” — Dylan Thomas

6. “We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.” — H.G. Wells

7. “The only journey is the one within.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

8. “You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.” — Mary Oliver

9. “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” — Mary Oliver

10. “The best way out is always through.” — Robert Frost

11. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” — Oscar Wilde

12. “I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” — Robert Frost

13. “And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” — John Steinbeck

14. “You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life.” — Walt Whitman

15. “Though lovers be lost, love shall not; and death shall have no dominion.” — Dylan Thomas

16. “For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.” — Langston Hughes

17. “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” — Albert Camus

18. “The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.” — Mulan (attributed to the Disney movie, based on a Chinese proverb)

19. “A poet’s work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.” — Salman Rushdie

20. “We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in.” — Ernest Hemingway

21. “The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.” — Henry David Thoreau

22. “In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” — Robert Frost

23. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” — Winston Churchill

24. “Success is counted sweetest by those who ne’er succeed.” — Emily Dickinson

25. “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” — Rumi

26. “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” — Rumi

27. “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” — Albert Einstein

28. “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” — Anaïs Nin

29. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

30. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

31. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde

32. “The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” — Marthe Troly-Curtin

33. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Lao Tzu

34. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela

35. “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” — Rumi

36. “You are your own soulmate.” — Rupi Kaur

37. “What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.” — Walt Whitman

38. “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” — Oscar Wilde

39. “Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier.’” — Alfred Lord Tennyson

40. “It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” — Paulo Coelho

41. “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” — Rumi

42. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” — Walt Whitman

43. “The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.” — Morris Mandel

44. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” — Maya Angelou

45. “Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.” — Carl Sandburg

46. “If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.” — Toni Morrison

47. “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.” — Allen Saunders

48. “When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

49. “We loved with a love that was more than love.” — Edgar Allan Poe

50. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.” — Ernest Hemingway

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