70 inspirational quotes from poets

Through verse and lyric poetry it is possible to access a unique way of interpreting reality.

Through reflections and phrases, poets, characterized by that ease of easily connecting with their emotions and using the right words to narrate situations, encounters or misunderstandings, and give us a different look at what they want to convey to the world. With their works they give us wisdom through one of the shortest forms of expression: the verse.

Thus, the phrases of the poets are a way of seeing reality through the lyrica perspective focused on both ideas and emotions.

The 70 best phrases and reflections of famous poets.

Here is a compilation of phrases of poets who summarize their experience in the world in a more sublime way

1. It seems, when one loves, that the whole world has a rumor of spring (Juan Ramón Jiménez).

In this phrase of the Spanish poet, reference is made to the effect that the state of falling in love produces in a person.

2. And I have come to the conclusion that if scars teach, so do caresses (Mario Benedetti)

Everything we go through leads us to a learning process in favor of our growth.

3. Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and makes the present inaccessible.

In this phrase the poet Maya Angelou reveals to us the way in which prejudices manifest themselves once we bring them into our lives.

4. The book is strength, it is courage, it is power, it is food, torch of thought and spring of love (Rubén Darío)

For Rubén Darío the book represents wisdom, knowledge.

5. Doubt is one of the names of intelligence (Jorge Luis Borges).

That doubt, that questions, that enlivens our curiosity and that moves our will until it becomes an action that can mean a solution or learning.

6. The soul that can speak with its eyes can also kiss with its eyes (Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer).

Poetry can give faculties to certain elements and give them a new function.

7. Do not let your enthusiasm die out, a virtue as valuable as it is necessary; work, aspire, always tend towards height (Rubén Darío).

Enthusiasm as the engine and basis of great projects.

8. Nothing is real until it is experienced, even a proverb is not real until life has illustrated it (John Keats).

On the wisdom of experience.

9. Don't stop believing that words and poetry can change the world (Walt Whitman)

This quote by the poet Walt Whitman speaks about the power of poetry.

10. Words open doors over the sea (Rafael Alberti)

The words contained within poetry can seem to have incredible effects. In this case, many times, in poetry the sea represents emotions.

11. It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are (e.e cummings)

It is very easy to live according to the expectations of others, to the point of not letting our essential truth be seen.

12. Poetry doesn't want followers, it wants lovers (Federico García Lorca)

Poetry can mean a dark path that only someone who is very passionate about it can walk it.

13. I fell in love with life, it's the only one that won't leave me without me doing it first (Pablo Neruda)

In this phrase of the Chilean poet, he shows the passion and loyalty with which he lived every moment.

14. Perfection is a polished collection of errors (Mario Benedetti)

Carefully observe each error, understand its nature until excellence is achieved.

15. There are defeats that have more dignity than victories (Jorge Luis Borges)

A defeat can mean the maximum and honest point of our effort since not all victories are obtained in an honest way.

16. It is typical of those with narrow minds to attack everything that does not fit in their heads (Antonio Machado).

When a person cannot understand some situation or knowledge, he tries to dismiss it or play it down.

17. He dies slowly who does not travel, who does not hear music, who does not find grace in himself.

Life is composed of small or big pleasures that if we do not experience them we could be developing biochemical processes less living.

18. If you always try to be normal you will never discover how extraordinary you can be.

From time to time we must allow ourselves to explore more of what we can be.

19. Let's not throw dirt in our eyes: the automobile is a wheelchair (Nicanor Parra)

Appreciation of the negative aspects of the constant use of automobiles.

20. I was born one day when God was sick (César Vallejo)

This phrase of the Peruvian poet expresses his pessimism when it comes to valuing his life. One of the most revealing phrases of poets..

21. Bravo lion, my Heart has appetites, not reason (Alfonsina Storni)

About the intensity with which Alfonsina faced the world.

22. You can forget the one you have laughed with but not the one you have cried with (Khalil Gibran)

People who are in difficult moments become more valuable and intensely endearing.

23. Reason is lost by reasoning (Antonio Porchia)

Reaching a point where we have gone so deep that we evade reality.

24. Only one thing is clear: that the flesh is full of worms (Nicanor Parra)

This phrase of the poet Nicanor Parra alludes to the fact that no one escapes death.

25. I see at the end of my rough road, that I was the architect of my own destiny (Amado Nervo)

In the end we see that all the decisions we have made have been responsible for the course our lives have taken.

26. The happy times in humanity are the empty pages of history (Gabriela Mistral).

Dramatic events are more transcendent(Gabriela Mistral) Dramatic events transcend more, since by their force they open significant changes.

To know more is to be freer (César Vallejo).

The power that knowledge gives us leads us to freedom.

28. Sad is the man in whom nothing is left of the child (Arturo Graf)

On preserving the characteristics of the child we were.

29. If at night you cry for not seeing the sun, tears will prevent you from seeing the stars (Tagore).

Not to let ourselves be totally overshadowed by adverse situations, not to remain in them, since we can deny ourselves the possibility of learning from them or easily detach ourselves from them.

30. Sometimes a man has to fight so hard for life that he has no time to live it (Bukowski).

About the current system in which we live.

31. God created the cat so man could caress the lion (Charles Baudelaire)

Interesting reflection that honors the little feline.

32. There is nothing that stirs up love more than the fear of losing the beloved (Francisco de Quevedo)

The fear of loneliness and an insecure attachment can lead us to perform many feats in the name of love.

33. The hesitant will not do great things if they doubt security (Thomas Eliot).

This phrase by the poet Thomas Eliot, motivates us to perform with more confidence in different situations.

34. Do not write under the rule of emotion. Let it die and then evoke it. If you are then able to revive it as it was, you have reached the halfway point (Horacio Quiroga).

On self-control in the narrative process. Observe an emotion as a spectator, an apprentice, to rescue the wisdom and then add poetic passion to it.

35. What most outrages the charlatan is someone silent and dignified ( Juan Ramon Jimenez )

For unlike him, his honest posture alone makes him uncomfortable because it brings him closer to his falsehood and superficiality.

36. Who knows pain, knows everything (Dante Alighieri)

Pain contains such wisdom that once we experience it something in us changes.

37. A woman watches her body uneasily, as if it were an unreliable ally in the struggle for love.

On the insecurities associated with what has traditionally been considered feminine.

38. The most difficult is not the first kiss, but the last (Paul Geraldy)

Because it represents the farewell.

We are all equal before the law, but not before those who enforce it (Stanislaw J. Lec).

This phrase of the poet Stanislaw Lec, refers to the irregularities of the institutions.

40. Those who die for a great cause never die in vain (Lord Byron)

They are always remembered for what they did.

41. Yes, bravery is madness, but full of greatness (Reynaldo Arenas)

Acts that require a certain courage are considered for people who have probably lost their minds.

42. The past and the future are nothing compared to the severe today (Adelaide A. Procter).

Only the present is lived and represents a constant battle.

43. It could have been this, it could have been that, but it is loved and hated for what it is (Rudyard Kipling).

In this phrase of Kipling's, the essence and real value of each element is rescued. One of those poets' phrases to remember for its potential to make us reflect.

44. But it is so lonely that words commit suicide (Alejandra Pizarnik)

This phrase of the Argentine poet refers to a state of complete melancholy.

45. No one will understand with what emotion my spirit interprets the purest beauties, you will understand it because you are a poet. (Abraham Valdelomar)

About the sensitivity and perspective with which a poet perceives the world.

46. Delicacy synthesizes the beautiful (José María Eguren)

About the details of an element that make it pleasant to others.

47. The friends of the present hour are like melons: you have to try fifty before you find a good one (Claude Mermet).

There will be many circumstances that will place us before a loyal friend.

48. Your wisdom is worth as much as nothing if no one knows how much is your knowledge (Aulus Persius)

Each person possesses and Each person possesses and attaches a value to what he experiences..

49. Knowledge comes but wisdom abides (Alfred Tennyson)

About what we gain through time and constant discovery.

50. He who does not know the truth is ignorant; but he who knows it and disproves it is a criminal (Bertolt Brecht).

This phrase of the poet Bertolt Brecht, brings us closer to dishonesty in a peculiar way..

51. On the threshold of death begins equality (Charles P. Colardeau)

At the end of our lives we begin a process where we all look exactly the same.

52. The secure friend is known on the insecure occasion (Ennio)

About those loyal friendships that nourish our existence.

53. Revenge is always a pleasure of narrow, sick and shrunken spirits (Juvenal).

This phrase brings us closer to the profile of any revengeful person.

54. Man is a god when he dreams and a beggar when he reflects (Friedrich Hölderlin).

Dreams make us feel powerfulWhen we reflect, we step on the ground because it shows us our reality.

55. All my heritage is my friends (Emely Dickinson)

Friends are probably the most valuable thing we can possess.

56. There is no unhappier man than he for whom indecision has become a habit (Henrich Heine).

Living in total anguish over the lack of control over our decisions can involve us in a case.

57. Hope in few things, and fear still fewer things (Charles A. Swinburne).

Our yearnings and energies should be set on something higher and transcendent, for this author.

58. Man, become essential: when the world passes, what is of chance will fall; the essence will remain (Angelus Silesius).

On the importance of the transcendental.

59. A slave is he who waits for someone to come and free him (Ezra Pound).

There is no worse slavery than the annulment of our potentialities and codependence.

60. A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

On the reason for the existence of a poem.

61. Courage makes conquerors; concord makes invincible (Casimir Delavigne)

United we can accomplish much.

62. We search everywhere for the absolute and always find only things (Novalis).

Often the goal is not only to seek.

63. The sorrow of him who weeps in secret is sincere.

This phrase gives us an example of prudence.

64. After his blood, the most personal thing that a man can give is a tear (Alphonse de Lammartine).

To open his heart in the intimacy of his emotions.

65. Only the man who expects nothing is truly free (Edward Yong)

When we are freed from the burden of expectations.

66. He who undertakes nothing, nothing will end (Geoffrey Chaucer)

We must begin at some point, it is the most important step, to begin.

67. For the industrious bee there is no time to be sad.

When we allow ourselves to be distracted by obligations and work.

68. Freedom does not consist in doing what you want, but in doing what you must (Ramón de Campoamor).

On the value of responsibilities.

69. A person without friends runs the risk of never getting to know himself (Julio Ramón Ribeyro).

Friends bring wisdom necessary for our development.

70. In each future reader, the writer is reborn (Julio Ramón Ribeyro)

On the relationship between writer and reader. Each reader reinvents the story according to his or her perspective.