Quotes and Poems – Expressions That Inspire

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. – Albert Camus

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. – C.S. Lewis

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. – Paulo Coelho

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. – Steve Jobs

Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. – John Lennon

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. – Buddha

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. – Robert Frost

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. – Helen Keller

Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. – Sam Levenson

Quotes and Poems – Expressions That Inspire part 2

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill

The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Peter Drucker

Do or do not. There is no try. – Yoda

Life is too important to be taken seriously. – Oscar Wilde

The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible. – Joel Brown

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Nelson Mandela

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost

The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words. – William H. Gass

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. – William Wordsworth

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning. – James Dickey

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. – Robert Frost

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. – Robert Frost

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. – Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. – Carl Sandburg

A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. – Salvatore Quasimodo

A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a poet. – Bob Dylan

Poetry is what gets lost in translation. – Robert Frost

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. – Jack Kerouac

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. – Alice Walker

A poet is a painter of the soul. – Sylvia Plath

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. – Carl Sandburg

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. – W.H. Auden

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. – Novalis

A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. – Salman Rushdie

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is an art of uniting pleasure with truth. – Samuel Johnson

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. – Wallace Stevens

Poetry is the deification of reality. – Edith Sitwell