Inspirational Poems Stories And Quotes

I belong to clever words and bedtime stories
even a good riddle or two
I belong to the sound of music
and dance to my own rhythm
I belong to the sunlight on a chilly autumn day
when the world awaits a new beginning
I belong by the shore under a star-filled sky
with the ocean caressing my feet
I belong everywhere.
And anyway I please. ~ M.J. Abraham

I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too. ~ Jackie Evancho

No one could say the stories were useless
for as the tongue clacked
five or forty fingers stitched
corn was grated from the husk
pathwork was pieced
or the darning was done ...
(from 'The Storyteller Poems') ~ Liz Lochhead

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays. ~ Lena Dunham

Wilfred Funk writes in Word Origins and Their Romantic Stories that originally all words were poems, since our language is based, like poems, in metaphor. ~ Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge

Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories. ~ Billy Graham

You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems. ~ Walt Disney Company

There are horrible events going on all over the world. Human beings are really fucking up. Poets, we can't just write poems. We have to put poems into action. ~ Jeremiah Walton

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories. ~ Walker Percy

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer? ~ Jennifer Weiner

Stories are like islands, go out exploring and you're bound to get lost fantastically. ~ M. Robert Randolph

Poems are surmountable. They have rhymes and rhythms to help you make meaning. They're short enough. . . to read and reread until you've made some sense of them. Short stories are a different ballgame. You read them and understand the words completely. You know what happens in each sentence. You follow the dialogue and action. at the end, you know exactly what's happened. And also you have no idea. ~ Laurie Frankel

There lived a poet in the lands of gold,
Wrote along poems unaffected by warmth or cold,
His words spoke truth and pen's stroke was bold,
His only motive: lives to mould ~ Adhish Mazumder

I tell it stories now and then
and feed it images like honey.
I will not speculate today
with poems that think they're money. ~ Anne Sexton

I had been writing poems and stories since I learned to make letters. I had placed poems in a hardcover anthology at the age of 6. And I knew more big words than anyone else in the 10th grade. ~ Jeff Lindsay

Faith helps you to over come all the troubles,
If you faith, troubles will blow out like bubbles.
So let faith become your strength,
As faith will help you to walk the length. ~ Ron Sen

Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished poems and stories and first paragraphs of novels that never got written. ~ Ally Carter

Life stories with themes of ruin can trap us. Life stories that are triumphant can transform us. ~ Meg Jay

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. ~ Robert Morgan

Winners win, Losers lose. It's YOU who decides what you want to be ~ Andrew Rozario

Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell. ~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

I picked up my volume of Collected Stories and Poems by Edgar Allen Poe. I sprawled across the bed and flipped through the pages until I came to one of my favorite short stories: "The Oval Portrait. ~ Crystal Smith Gordon

Great stories happen to those who can tell them ~ Ira Glass

Stories can be rewritten. Reshaped. Retold. ~ Jess Rothenberg

I am bothered by poems I don't understand. ~ Joyce Rachelle

You possess the (pro.pen.si.ty), propensity to become one of the great success stories. ~ Jon Jones

Poems don't have to rhyme. Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings. ~ Nikki Giovanni

Don't read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success. ~ Abdul Kalam

Poems, even when narrative, do not resemble stories. All stories are about battles, of one kind or another, which end in victory or defeat. Everything moves towards the end, when the outcome will be known.
Poems, regardless of any outcome, cross the battlefields, tending the wounded, listening to the wild monologues of the triumphant or the fearful. They bring a kind of peace. Not by anaesthesia or easy reassurance, but by recognition and the promise that what has been experienced cannot disappear as if it had never been. Yet the promise is not of a monument. (Who, still on a battlefield, wants monuments?) The promise is that language has acknowledged, has given shelter, to the experience which demanded, which cried out. ~ John Berger

Great stories strengthen us to be great souls. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There are anonymous poems and poets without poems. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

I cannot imagine a life without books.
Without Father's stories of the ancient Greek gods and goddesses, without pirate stories and fairy tales and poems. Without the hope of another way, of freedom and adventure beyond what we have here and now. How dark life would be. ~ Jessica Spotswood

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told. ~ Carolyn G. Heilbrun

Stories change us; they change the world. People are stories of themselves. ~ Karen Healey

Power of words are infinity, use them wisely. Power of words can change the world or destroy ~ Andrew Rozario

I will make the poems of materials, for I think they are to be the most spiritual poems; And I will make the poems of my body and of mortality, For I think I shall then supply myself with the poems of my soul, and of immortality. ~ Walt Whitman

Poems are lenses, mirrors, and X-ray machines. ~ David Mitchell

Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates. ~ Christy Hall

If you wish to succeed, you must believe in yourself and look at everything positively ~ Sid Mittra

Stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream.
From Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion ~ Carmen Naranjo

She wanted to and believed she could
- so she did. ~ Jill Telford

They were full of mysteries and secrets, like ... like poems turned into landscapes."
"'Poems turned into landscapes.'" he murmured with a slight smile. "And what of Vestenveld's gardens? Do you see poems in them?"
"Your gardens are like your country's poetry. Very frilly and organized. ~ Jaclyn Dolamore

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. ~ Rumi

Stories
individual stories, family stories, national stories
are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals. ~ Yann Martel

You can customize tomorrow, only if you train your brain today! Don't believe in Luck, only believe in hard work ~ Andrew Rozario

If you want to write poetry, you must have poems that deeply move you. Poems you can't live without. I think of a poem as the blood in a blood transfusion, given from the heart of the poet to the heart of the reader. Seek after poems that live inside you, poems that move through your veins. ~ Ralph Fletcher

She told me the world was made of stories, nothing else, just stories, and stories about stories. ~ Tommy Orange

I think if you put something in a file that says "war poems" or "love poems" that you already restrict the way in which the poem might move. ~ Rita Dove

I had written here and there about my mother in my poems. There are poems for her in my first and second books. ~ Tracy K. Smith

For the entire Desiderata go to Inspirational Poems page ~ Max Ehrmann

Poems
All poems are just a bunch of sounds.
What really counts is the echo. ~ Beryl Dov

Whether they write poems or don't write poems, poets are best. ~ Randall Jarrell

he is her home, a cemetery of poems. ~ Gwen Calvo

I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else. ~ Mary Oliver

I've been writing poems since I was sixteen. Back then, poems were an obvious release for all the frustrations and anxieties associated with adolescence. Mostly, they were a way for me to impress girls, even though I never remember any girls being impressed. ~ Tony Magistrale

I always write stories, and I write poems, too. I just never sell them to anybody, but I write them. They're good, too. They never leave the house. They're too disclosing. ~ Richard Bausch

But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems. ~ Andrew Motion

It pleases me to meet you, Valkyrie. I've heard stories."
"Good stories or bad stories?"
"All stories are good stories," he smiled, "even the bad ones. ~ Derek Landy

I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books. ~ Karen Hesse

If I knew where poems came from, I'd go there. ~ Michael Langley

So many poems you go into and come up empty. ~ Maxine Kumin

They are not my stories ... they are merely mine to tell ~ Jeremy Aldana

Stories are how we think. They are how we make meaning of life. Call them schemas, scripts, mental maps, ideas, metaphors, or narratives. Stories are how we inspire and motivate human beings. Great stories help us to understand our place in the world, create our identity, discover our purpose, form our character and define and teach human values. ~ Jeroninio Almeida

Well, we're meant to be writing stories today, ~ Mark Haddon

I have worked locked psych wards and had patients give me stories they wrote or poems and this reminded me of that...
Word salad! ~ Montzalee Wittmann

I write small poems
the kind that fit on a postcard ...
and still can break your heart ~ John Geddes

Life is beautiful,be at peace with it's source. ~ Vevine Goldson

When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive. ~ C. K. Williams

Sentences may alter the weather, and poems might tear down walls. Stories may change the world. ~ Alix E. Harrow

I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm writing a novel it's pretty much all I can do. I get bored. It takes months. Movies do the same thing. It's all-encompassing. It feels like I'm going to end up writing poems, short stories and screenplays. ~ Sherman Alexie

I like poems that are little games. ~ Peter Davison

I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are like snapshots, but I'm more interested in poetry that is like an endless film, long stories, things that weave together many different strands, like a big piece of cloth, not like a photograph. ~ Robert Bringhurst

So the stories aren't just stories, is what you're saying. They're really secret knowledge disguised as stories."
"One could say that of all stories, younger brother. ~ G. Willow Wilson

We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. ~ Niall Williams

People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are. ~ Tinie Tempah

The attention was flattering. For the first five minutes. Now I know how poems feel. ~ Margaret Edson

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel. ~ Marilyn Hacker

Poems are soft kitten furs. smoothing out the rough edges of my world. ~ Sanober Khan

Is it possible to silence
the mind of a lover
without losing it?
Getting desires fulfilled
might satisfy it,
taking away its peace. ~ Tatjana Ostojic

Many of my poems are not sexual. ~ Thom Gunn

In my heart is a space
that is so sacred
and none can enter in
but you.

And I shall wait for you
though it takes forever,
though my heart bleeds
and my all consumed.

I wait because I love you
And love waits
for the only one
that it loves. ~ Jocelyn Soriano

I like the machinery of poems, especially when they have human warmth. ~ Edward Hirsch

We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading. ~ Thom Gunn

Nothing ever stays the same, whether it be poems or humans. ~ Joy Harjo

Time slips by; our sorrows do not turn into poems,
And what is invisible stays that way. ~ Mark Strand

All the stories and poems and letters and oracles and wisdom verses of God's Word, like individual instruments in a great orchestra, serve THE WHOLE story. ~ James MacDonald

The poems and stories we shared with each other could mean what we wanted them to mean. We could choose our own path together. ~ Ally Condie

But love of one kind will never duplicate itself. Love has its variety...which possibly makes it as a great as all the songs and stories and poems. ~ Dan Skinner

Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life. ~ Paula Fox

As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so I'm very excited when I notice that. ~ Kate Bernheimer

But as a wise and great teacher once explained so patiently, all good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, stories that cause you to become a better person from their telling-these stories always contain truth. ~ Camron Wright

I like short poems with weird rhyme schemes, because that's what life is like. ~ John Green

Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep. ~ Seamus Heaney

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems. ~ Carol Ann Duffy

I have not known who I were
until you introduced me to my heart. ~ Tatjana Ostojic

I like Beethoven, especially the poems. ~ Ringo Starr

I like poems that are complex. ~ Peter Davison

Poems are the music of our childhoods ~ Suzy Davies

But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good. ~ Sylvia Plath

The lives and deaths of characters in stories and poems, however tragic, help us to learn about the world and - if we are brave enough - to change it. ~ Nicola Morgan