15+ Inspiring Quotes Of Famous Poets On Life and Living

When life starts feeling like a series of hardships, these wise words by some of the famous poets in the world will help you navigate through it.
quotes on life from famous poets

Quotes can be incredibly emotive! When life gets hard and confusing, coming across a line that you can relate to the core lets you navigate through all the hardships and live your life to the fullest. To inspire you to appreciate your life today and every day, here’s a list of inspiring quotes on life and living from famous poets.

Quotes On Life

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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it."
-Emily Dickinson

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert Frost

"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated."
-Maya Angelou

"To begin, begin."
-William Wordsworth

"Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field, frozen with snow."
-Langston Hughes

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."
-John Keats

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you."
-Walt Whitman

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
-T.S. Eliot

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Quotes On Living

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"The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
-Sylvia Plath

"Listen to the mustn't's, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."
-Shel Silverstein

"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."
-William Shakespeare

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."
-Rabindranath Tagore

"Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."
-Carl Sandburg

"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."
-Rainer Maria Rilke

"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself."
-Khalil Gibran

"Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God; but only he who sees, takes off his shoes."
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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