Best Poet Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“the moon has consistently remained by my side in my darkest of times and when everyone left me to my nightmares, the sun has always been there to wake me up...”

“Live for everything, or die for nothing”

“Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.”

“Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.”

“There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!”

“A Poet is the most unpoetical of any thing in existence; because he has no Identity -- he is continually in for -- and filling some other Body -- The Sun, the Moon, the Sea, and Men and Women who are creatures of impulse are poetical and have about them an unchangeable attribute -- the poet has none; no identity -- he is certainly the most unpoetical of all God's creatures.”

“And here face down beneath the sun”

“The kind of poem I produced in those days was hardly anything more than a sign I made of being alive, of passing or having passed, or hoping to pass, through certain intense human emotions. It was a phenomenon of orientation rather than of art, thus comparable to stripes of paint on a roadside rock or to a pillared heap of stones marking a mountain trail.”

“we want it visible”

“A poet is simply an artist whose medium is human emotions.  A poet chisels away at our own sensibilities, shaping our vision while molding our hearts.  A poet wraps words around our own feelings and presents them as fresh gifts to humanity.”

“I do not write poetry; I take words and dip them in feelings.”

“I only wrote prose before I met you.”

“I left the bank”

“I do not write to you, but of you,/because the paper that we write on/is our perishable skin.”

“I wait on my fix:”

“The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.”

“Kiss her gypsy soul and love her for the wild rose she is.”

“I will meet you on the nape of your neck one day, on the surface of intention, word becoming act.”

“I wonder”

“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge.”

“A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his thoughts, however commonplace they may be, exquisitely. That is the one and only difference between the poet and everybody else.”

“Poetry emerging from a poet enters into the reader only when it comes within the readers’ 'sphere of intellect. A reader cannot take poetry by expanding it beyond his/her consciousness, rather can take by shrinking it within. Thus, there exists a chance of every poem getting changed while reaching every reader. This ‘getting changed’ is a form of ‘getting translated’, in a way. So, every assimilation of any poem is a translation.”

“May I discard the outer cover of time from the layers of poetry by immersing the poet in its entirety within me”

“Poetry emerging from a poet enters into the reader only when it comes within the readers’ 'sphere of intellect.”

“... and I realise the only way to tell the others”

“Morning and evening”

“Every poem that I've created was yours. I thought they were mine, but they were yours. And I wish I could've kept them. And I wish I could've kept you.”

“Life. This morning the sun made me adore it. It had, behind the dripping pine trees, the oriental brightness, orange and crimson, of a living being, a rose and an apple, in the physical and ideal fusion of a true and daily paradise.”

“Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.”

“She lends her pen,”