Inspirational Quotes from Famous Writers and Poets

September 19, 2020 at 9:21 pm Leave a comment

If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
Aristophanes (c. 446 – c. 386 BC), ancient Greeks playwright

True wisdom consists not in seeing what is immediately before our eyes, but in foreseeing what is to come
Terence (195/185–159 BC), Roman playwright

Fortune favors the brave.
Terence

Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
Rumi (September 30, 1207 –December 17, 1273), Persian poet and Sufi mystic

Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about…Say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it before the beginning of the universe.
Rumi

There is a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise. Drink all your passion, and be a disgrace. Close both eyes to see with the other eye.
Rumi

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Rumi

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
Rumi

As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind – Just such am I, having lost nearly all the vision itself, while in my heart I feel the sweetness of it yet distill and fall.
Dante Alighieri (c. 1265–September 9, 1321), Italian poet (Paradiso)

The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Miguel de Cervantes (September 29,1547–April 22,1616), Spanish novelist

The earth has music for those who listen.
William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564–April 23, 1616), English poet and playwright

Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity … and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
William Blake (November 28, 1757 –August 12, 1827), English poet and painter

To create a little flower is the labour of ages.
William Blake

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
William Blake

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