inspiration,poetry Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. APPLY WITHINYou once told meYou wanted to findYourself in the world -And I told you toFirst apply within,To discover the worldwithin you.You once told meYou wanted to saveThe world from all its wars -And I told you toFirst save yourselfFrom the world,And all the warsYou put yourselfThrough.APPLY WITHIN by

2. Don't you know no one can escapethe power of creatures reaching outwith breath alone?

3. Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity. Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. I couldn't tell fact from fiction,Or if the dream was trueMy only sure predictionIn this world was you.I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.

5. I take thee at thy word:Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;Henceforth I never will be Romeo. Romeo and Juliet

6. I’m not aspiring to be someone else – If I’m me for the rest of my life then so be it Life Through the Eyes of an Insider: 101 Poems to Help You Understand Life Better

7. If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

8. Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

9. repeat after me:you oweno oneyour forgiveness. - except maybe yourself. The Princess Saves Herself in This One

10. Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

11. There is freedom waiting for you,On the breezes of the sky,And you ask "What if I fall?"Oh but my darling,What if you fly?

12. Think of what starlight And lamplight would lack Diamonds and fireflies If they couldn’t lean against Black. . . . Hailstones and Halibut Bones