Inspirational Quotes

Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.

Poetry Humility Identity I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

Bob Dylan

Poetry Literature Language Creativity Basics The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

Edgar Allan Poe

Love Connection Inspiration Poetry Unity Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Poetry Joy Pain Wonder Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Kahlil Gibran

Crime Poetry Philosophy Life Business I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Henry David Thoreau

Poetry Interpretation Spirituality Intermediary Divinity The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

Socrates

Poetry Beauty Creation Rhythm I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry Creativity Expression It's not easy to define poetry.

Bob Dylan

Excellence Mathematics Poetry Joy The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

Bertrand Russell

Poetry History Truth Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Plato