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50 Heart-Stirring Quotes And Poems That Will Help You Get Inspired This National Poetry Month

Patrick Tomasso

50 Heart-Stirring Quotes And Poems That Will Help You Get Inspired This National Poetry Month

Poetry is not dead.

How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.

— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey

Poetry Quote of the Moment Self love How to be good at love

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if you are broken
and they have left you
do not question
whether you were
enough
the problem was
you were so enough
they were not able to carry it.

— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey

Love strength empowerment Poetry

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The best kind of humans are the ones who stay.

— R.M Drake, R.M Drake Collection

Humans That Stay Relationships Love Friendship R.M Drake

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Maybe love was meant to save us from ourselves.

— R.M Drake, R.M Drake Collection

Love Saving From Ourselves R.M Drake

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'I don't believe in magic.' The young boy said. The old man smiled. 'You will, when you see her.' — Atticus

'I don't believe in magic.' The young boy said. The old man smiled. 'You will, when you see her.'

— Atticus, via Instagram

Love Poetry Atticus Atticus Poetry Her Describing Love Love & Relationships Finding Love Finding Her Magic

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I made myself from all the love you no longer wanted.

— Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You

Love Heartbreak Unrequited Love

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I don’t pay attention to the<br />
world ending.<br />
it has ended for me<br />
many times<br />
and began again in the morning. — Nayyirah Waheed

I don’t pay attention to the
world ending.
it has ended for me
many times
and began again in the morning.

— Nayyirah Waheed, Poems

poem Poetry Writers Life

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and in the end,
we were all just
humans,
drunk on the idea,
that love,
only love,
could heal
our brokenness.

— Christopher Poindexter (@christopherpoindexter), Christopher Poindexter

Poetry Instagram Prose

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I hope you find someone
who knows how to love you
when you are sad.

— Nikita Gill,

Your Soul Is A River Poetry Love When You're Sad Love You When You're Sad real love

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And first,
before him
and before her
and before them
there was you.

Never forget that.

— Nikita Gill,

Your Soul Is A River Poetry Love Yourself First Strong Independence You Are Strong strength Finding Strength Survival Loving Yourself After A Breakup After Him

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We all have a room within us,
in which we keep the things
we have loved
deeply,
intensely,
passionately,
but lost forever.

My room is full of you.
Just you.

— Nikita Gill,

Your Soul Is A River Poetry Love Missing You Endless Love Forever Love Miss you

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When two souls fall in love, there is nothing else but the yearning to be close to the other. The presence that is felt through a hand held, a voice heard, or a smile seen.

Souls do not have calendars or clocks, nor do they understand the notion of time or distance. They only know it feels right to be with one another.

This is the reason why you miss someone so much when they are not there— even if they are only in the very next room. Your soul only feels their absence— it doesn’t realize the separation is temporary.

— Lang Leav, Memories (Lang Leav)

Forever With You

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Are you like me? Do you give too much, too quickly? Do you throw yourself blindly at the world, thinking it will always open its arms up to you?

— Lang Leav, Are You Alive Or Just Pretending?

Life Living Life To The Fullest Lang Leav Poetry Poems Reckless

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I still remember you as a little girl
who overwater plants
because she doesn't know when
to stop giving.

— Trista Mateer Moreland (@tristamateer), Trista Mateer

Poetry Prose Instagram

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Maybe we feel empty because we leave pieces of ourselves in all the
things we used to love.

— R.M Drake, R.M Drake Collection

Feel Empty Pieces Of Ourselves Leaving and Coming R.M Drake

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I fell in love but not with someone or something. I fell in love with life. For the first time, everything inspired me.

— R.M Drake, Beautiful & Damned

R.M Drake Life And Love Relationships Self Worth Love inspiration

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if you are broken
and they have left you
do not question
whether you were
enough
the problem was
you were so enough
they were not able to carry it.

— rupi kaur (@rupikaur_), Rupi Kaur

Poetry Instagram Prose

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I didn't leave because
I stopped loving you,
I left because the longer
I stayed the less I loved myself.

— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey

Leaving Loving goodbye Love More

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Every time you
tell your daughter
you yell at her
out of love
you teach her to confuse
anger with kindness
which seems like a good idea
till she grows up to
trust men who hurt her
cause they look so much
like you.

— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey

Mother Quotes Daughter Quotes Relationships

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How we need another soul to cling to.

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath

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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath

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Kiss me and you will see how important I am.

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath

Love kiss Relationships Dating Insecurities Self Worth

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Don't you look at what I had for you and call it weak.
Not when you were the one afraid of it.
I stood there with my hands open,
my mouth bruised tender with supplication.
Don't you dare treat me like a victim of my own emotions,
like being moved to my knees by love
was a mistake that I regret.
I will go to my grave with the memory of the bravery in my bones.

— Caitlyn Siehl, What We Buried

Weakness Love strength Poetry

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We loved like we were trying to make up for lost time.
Every touch an apology, an
'I'm sorry I haven't been with you every day since elementary school.'

— Caitlyn Siehl, What We Buried

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It's not that I don't love you,
it's just that I can't pretend like the roof isn't caving in or that I don't see the smoke leaking out
from the gaps in your teeth.

— Caitlyn Siehl, What We Buried

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We begin where we end,
it has always been this way.

— Tyler Knott Gregson, Tyler Knott Gregson

Love Beginnings Endings Breaking Up Getting Back Together

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I will miss you
always,
even in the moments
when you are right
beside me.
Time apart has planted
longing inside me
and I do not think
it is a weed
that will ever stop growing.

It will always live there.

— Tyler Knott Gregson (@tylerknott), Tyler Knott

Poetry Prose Instagram

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You warrior with a purple heart.
You lover with a Grand Canyon of possibility.
There is so much space in you.
That’s a good thing.
That’s beautiful

— Ari Eastman, An Anthem For Everyone Who Keeps Loving And Trusting No Matter What

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You loved. And that’s the most beautiful thing any of us can do.

— Ari Eastman, Just So You Know, It’s Okay To Still Care About Him

Ari Eastman Love

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we burned down every building
we ever touched
and still had the audacity
to call it
love.

— Ari [B]eastman (@arieastman), Ari Eastman

Poetry Prose Instagram

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to watch you in pain
is a terrible, terrible thing.
is to sit helpless with all the tools
locked in the shed.

— Ari Eastman, Bloodline

Poetry Health Pain Family

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there are too many rooms here,
too many places
for my grief to sit

— Ari Eastman, Bloodline

Poetry Grief Loss

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One day, whether you
are 14, 28
or 65

you will stumble upon
someone who will start
a fire in you that cannot die.

However, the saddest,
most awful truth
you will ever come to find––

is they are not always
with whom we spend our lives.

— Beau Taplin, The Awful Truth

Love Relationships The One Falling In Love Timing Letting Go

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The most important thing you will ever do in your life is learn to embrace your unique, honest self. A boundless, infinitely populated universe and there is nothing else here quite like you. This is your power. All those things that make you strange and different are what make you irreplaceable.

— Beau Taplin, via afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com

Irreplaceable unique Be yourself Weirdo

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This is my promise to you, so long as you’re with me, your life will remain yours and yours alone.

— Beau Taplin, I Don't Need To Be Your Whole World, But I Want To Be A Part of It

Dear Future Lover Dear Future Boyfriend Future Lover Open Letter Love Love Letter

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I will love you
With the dust of who I was,
With the skin that I am now,
And with the bones
That will one day decorate my tomb.

— Christopher Poindexter, via Tumblr

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I loved her, not for the way she danced with my angels but for the way the sound of her name could silence my demons

— Christopher Poindexter, Her

Forever With You

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Sometimes I sit alone under the stars and think of the galaxies inside my heart and truly wonder if anyone will ever want to make sense of all that I am.

— Christopher Poindexter, via Tumblr

Alone Under The Stars 3am Thoughts Understanding Your Self Searching For Answers

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Nothing truly beautiful ever asks for attention, it just naturally exists, as it is, in confidence and boldness.

— Bianca Sparacino, Seeds Planted in Concrete

Attention How To Shine Just Be You

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There may come a day when they fall out of love with you. Do not let this be the day you fall out of love with you. How long they choose to stay will never be your decision, but how you choose to rise is.

— Bianca Sparacino, Seeds Planted in Concrete

Your Value Growth You Will Grow

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Do not chase another human being. Instead, chase your curiosity. Chase your development and your goals. Chase your passion. Strive to work for something bigger than yourself, and instead of trying to convince someone that you fit within their world, strive to build your own.

— Bianca Sparacino, Seeds Planted in Concrete

Passion Life How To Build A Life

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The truth of it all is that you may not know what you deserve right this moment, and that is okay. You will grow to figure it out. Until then, just promise me that you will believe with merciless conviction, with ruthless certainty, that you do not deserve to be unhappy. Promise me you will believe that you mean something.

— Bianca Sparacino, Seeds Planted in Concrete

What You Deserve Life Promise Me

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If only words could express the constant battle between loyalty and freedom, perhaps my heart would stop yearning for more and learn to live in this cage of contentment.

— Alison Malee, Shifting Bone

Loyalty Freedom

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In the flush of love's light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.

— Maya Angelou, Touched By An Angel Poem by Maya Angelou - Poem Hunter

Maya Angelou Beautiful Nature Love Inspiring

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Nothing cam dim the light that shines from within.

— Maya Angelou, 37 Inspirational Strong Women Quotes with Images

Maya Angelou Strong Women Independent

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You may write me down in history
with your bitter, twisted lies.
You may trod me in the very dirt
but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

— Maya Angelou, Still I Rise

feminism strength Self love Poetry Spilled Ink Inspirational Girl Power

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i will remember the kisses
our lips raw with love
and how you gave me
everything you had
and how I
offered you what was left of
me.

— Charles Bukowski, Charles Bukowski: Poems

Kissing Love Poem

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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

— Charles Bukowski, 10 Really Awesome Charles Bukowski Quotes

Meaning Life Ambition Remembered crazy

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Do not weep
but once, and a long

time then
Thereafter eat till

your stomach spills over
No more! you’ll cry

too full for your eyes
to leak

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The words will wait

— Kevin Young, Dear Darkness: Poems

Kevin Young Mourning Death Grieving Loss Language

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Your body is a map I know every inch of
and if anyone else
were to kiss me, all they would taste
is your name.

— Clementine Von Radics, via Tumblr

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