Most days I’ll be sharing some of the quotes that have inspired me, made me smile or just made me think.

Classic Quotes #65

Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke

I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Mark Strand

Mark Strand

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.
~ Mark Strand, Selected Poems

Gaston Bachelard

Gaston Bachelard

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
~ Gaston Bachelard

William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams

It is at the edge of the
petal that love waits
~ William Carlos Williams, Spring and All

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

prose,—words in their best order; poetry,—the best words in their best order
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What’s inspired you this week?