27 Beautiful Quotes From Inspiring Instagram Poets You Absolutely Must Follow

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We've rounded up the best poets on Instagram for those who enjoy reading words that inspire both the heart and the mind.

“God does not take us at our word. He looks deep into our hearts. It is not the ceremonies or rituals that make a difference, but whether our hearts are sufficiently pure or not.’”

— Shams Tabrizi, amazon.com

Tagged: God, Hearts, Ceremonies, Rituals, Pure heart

“The ancient Greek term mythos, which yields our English 'myth,' at its root means anything delivered by word of mouth and thus from the start was radically acoustic.”

— Walter Ong, amazon.com

Tagged: Etymology, Orality, Myth, Meaning in Vocalization, Word Origins

“[as the personification of Time] Time, they say you heal all wounds, but they don't talk about how you destroy all that's good in the world, how you turn beauty into ash. Now that's some bullshit, Howard. Now, if love is creation and death is destruction, I'm just the terrain in between. You don't u…”

— Allan Loeb, Raffi, Jacob Latimore, imdb.com

Tagged: Time, Time Heals All Wounds, beauty, Destruction, Death

“Film has dream, film has music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.”

— Ingmar Bergman, amazon.com

Tagged: film, Dream, Music, Art, Form of Art

“float on water, glide on moons, be a nimble heart, keep the ocean in your belly, steer the clouds with your eyes; make the sun your lover. be the things you dream of.”

— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com

Tagged: live your dreams, reaching dreams, reach your dreams, Never Give Up, Empowering

“I certainly do not disagree with you concerning the essential solitude of the individual, for it seems to me the plainest of all truths that no highly organised and freely developed mind can possibly envisage an external world having much in common with the external world invisaged by any other mind…”

— H. P. Lovecraft, hplovecraft.com

Tagged: Solitude, Individuality, Inner Mind, Outer World

“Dreams change. Life upends us, or we upend life.”

— Meghan Nesmith, manrepeller.com

Tagged: Career, Dreams

“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”

— Roy T. Bennett, amazon.com

Tagged: Choice, Pursuit of Happiness

“Life isn't about finding yourself life is about creating yourself.”

— Mel Robbins, twitter.com

Tagged: Life, live life to the fullest, Create Your Life, Life Is A Journey, life advice

“Sometimes people leave you Halfway through the wood Others may decieve you You decide what's good You decide alone But no one is alone.”

— Stephen Sondheim, imdb.com

Tagged: Alone, Leaving, Deception, decision

“I love all or I love nothing. Hence it is that I love nothing.”

— Albert Camus, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Philosophy

“I’ll tell you why I don’t put as much value on money. I genuinely believe I would rather waste money than time. Time is the only currency I think of that is actually worth anything with any real value. Time is the only thing that exists. You don’t lie on your deathbed going, 'I wish I just made a mi…”

— James Corden, amazon.com

Tagged: Money, Greed, deathbed, Regret

“...Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.”

— Joan Bauer, goodreads.com

Tagged: Love, Love & Relationships, difficult relationships

“What is more beautiful, my love? Love lost or love found?”

— Paolo Sorrentino, Lenny Belardo, Jude Law, imdb.com

Tagged: Love, The Meaning of Love, Only Once We Have Lost Love Can We Understand Love

“Falling in love is easy. Staying in love, growing in love, is hard.”

— E. Mellyberry, amazon.com

Tagged: Falling In Love, Growth, H4D-42, Love

“It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.”

— Edmund Hillary, goodreads.com

Tagged: Adventure, Dreaming, Searching, Pleasure

“I wanted love, I needed love.”

— The Black Keys, open.spotify.com

Tagged: Love, Want, Need, Falling In Love

“Tell her to read whatever interests her & protect her if someone declares what she's reading to be trash. No one can fathom what happens between a human being & written language.”

— Barry Lopez, amazon.com

Tagged: Reading, Reading books, Language, Writing, Writing Advice

“A man with no motive is a man no one suspects. Always keep your enemies confused. If they don’t know who you are or what you want, they can’t predict your next move.”

— Bryan Cogman, Petyr Baelish, Aidan Gillen, imdb.com

Tagged: GOT, Wise Words, Art of War, Deception

“Sacrificing everything that you care about in order to make another person happy is not love. It’s not really that some people are gardeners and some people are flowers. It’s that we both must be both, each in our own time.”

— Leila Sales, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Takers and Givers, We All Must Contribute