In this article, I have compiled a list of 61+ of the most inspiring quotes from famous poems, along with their respective authors and poems. These quotes are sure to give you a boost of motivation, comfort, and hope, no matter what challenges you may be facing.
The power of words has the ability to uplift our spirits and give us a fresh perspective. Poetry has been a source of inspiration for centuries, capturing the beauty of life and the complexities of the human experience.
Whether you’re a fan of classical poetry or contemporary verse, there’s something here for everyone. So, take a moment to read, reflect, and be inspired.
Am I living my own life, Or just accepting The one given to me By family, society, education? Have I truly claimed it as my own, Or do I following the crowd with dedication? - Nitin Namdeo, "I Can Touch You"
Inspirational Quotes from Poems
1. “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.” – William Ernest Henley, “Invictus”
2. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”
3. “Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so.” – John Donne, “Holy Sonnet 10”
4. “What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare” – W.H. Davies, “Leisure”
5. “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons” – T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
6. “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it” – Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist”
7. “Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” – Lord, Alfred Tennyson
8. “I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made.” – W.B. Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
9. “Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” – William Butler Yeats, “Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven”
10. “The best things in life are nearest: / Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, / Flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, / The path of right just before you.” – Robert Louis Stevenson, “Requiem”
11. “To see a world in a grain of sand / And a heaven in a wild flower / Hold infinity in the palm of your hand / And eternity in an hour.” – William Blake, “Auguries of Innocence”.
12. “Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments” – William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 116”
13. “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” – W.B. Yeats, “The Second Coming,”
14. “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” – Henry David Thoreau, “Walden”
Famous Quotes from Poem
15. “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, “Hope is the Thing with Feathers”
16. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller, “The World I Live In”
17. “I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Afternoon on a Hill”
18. “Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” – Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”
19. “When I consider how my light is spent, / Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, / And that one talent which is death to hide / Lodged with me useless.” – John Milton, “On His Blindness”
20. “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. / I love thee to the depth and breadth and height / My soul can reach.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Sonnet XLIII”
21. “I wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high o’er vales and hills, / When all at once I saw a crowd, / A host, of golden daffodils.” – William Wordsworth, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
22. “She walks in beauty, like the night / Of cloudless climes and starry skies; / And all that’s best of dark and bright / Meet in her aspect and her eyes.” – Lord Byron, “She Walks in Beauty”
23. “When you are old and grey and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book.” – W.B. Yeats, “When You Are Old”
24. “I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” – W.B. Yeats, “He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven”
25. “I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence” – Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken”
26. “If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain” – Emily Dickinson,
27. “And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow” – W.B. Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
28. “I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep” – Robert Frost, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
29. “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep” – Robert Frost , “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
30. “Death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadfull” – John Donne, “Holy Sonnet X”
31. “He who would be a man must therefore be a nonconformist” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”
Short Poetry Quotes
32. “The wound is the place where the light enters you.” – Rumi
33. “What’s past is prologue.” – William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”
34. “To be, or not to be: that is the question.” – William Shakespeare, “Hamlet”
35. “O Rose, thou art sick.” – William Blake, “The Sick Rose”
36. “What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross.” – Ezra Pound, “Canto LXXI”
37. “The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men, gang aft agley.” – Robert Burns, “To a Mouse”
38. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the road less traveled by.” – Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken”
39. “I dwell in possibility” – Emily Dickinson, “I Dwell in Possibility”
40. “I’m nobody! Who are you? / Are you nobody, too?” – Emily Dickinson, “I’m Nobody! Who Are You?”
41. “A thing of beauty is a joy forever” – John Keats, “Endymion”
42. “If I should die, think only this of me.” – Rupert Brooke, “The Soldier”
43. “I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” – Emma Lazarus, “The New Colossus”
44. “I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.” – T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
45. “I am large, I contain multitudes.” – Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”
46. “I am a part of all that I have met.” – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Ulysses”
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47. “Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, “Samuel Taylor Coleridge”
48. “Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me” – Emily Dickinson, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”
49. “I rise, I rise, I rise” – Maya Angelou, “Still I Rise”
50. “Come, my friends, / ‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Ulysses”
51. “Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes by chance” – William Shakespeare
52. “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Sonnet 43”
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53. “I know why the caged bird sings, / Ah me, / When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore, / When he beats his bars and he would be free; / It is not a carol of joy or glee.” – PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR, ” Sympathy “
54. “So we’ll go no more a roving / So late into the night / Though the heart be still as loving / And the moon be still as bright.” – Lord Byron, “So We’ll Go No More A-Roving”
55. “And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin, When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall, Then how should I begin/To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways? And how should I presume?” – T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
56. “We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams” – Arthur O’Shaughnessy, “Ode”
57. “When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me” – Walt Whitman , “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”
58. “I wandered lonely as a cloud.” – William Wordsworth, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
59. “If I should meet thee / After long years, / How should I greet thee? / With silence and tears.” – Lord Byron, “When We Two Parted”
60. “I carry your heart with me(I carry it in my heart)” – E.E. Cummings, “i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)”
61. “I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils.” – William Wordsworth, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
