25 phrases from poems about hope that will fill you with motivation

Life is renewed in the hope of a new day.

Carlos Drummond deAndrade

High up on the twelfth floor of the Year lives a madwoman named Hope. And she thinks that when all the sirens, all the horns . . . sound, she jumps and she will be found miraculously unharmed on the sidewalk, a child again.

Mario Quintana

To live is to cherish dreams and hopes, making faith our greatest inspiration. It’s looking for a big reason to be happy in the little things!

Mario Quintana

More hope in my steps than sadness in my shoulders, more road in my heart than sadness in my head.

Cora Coralina

The future is a kind of bank to which we send, one by one, the checks for our hopes. However, it is not possible for all checks to be bad.

Mario Quintana

Since two and two make four, I know that life is worth living, even though bread is expensive and freedom is small. How clear your eyes are and how dark your skin is, how blue the ocean and the lagoon are, serene.

Ferreira Gullar

The wretched have no other remedy but hope.

William Shakespeare

Just as there are hopes that tarry, there are hopes that come. (…) Hopes that delay take life; the hopes that come, not only do not take away life, but add to it’s days and breath.

Father Antonio Vieira

A new day is dawning. A new sun is already on its way. It looks like life, breaking into light, and inviting us to love.

Vinicius de Moraes

The web woven in the nights of hope, torn and wounded, follows our journey.

Isabel Gouveia

Leaving nights of terror and atrocity behind, I rise. Toward a new day of intense clarity, I rise, bringing with me the gift of my ancestors, I carry the dream and hope of enslaved man.

Maya Angelou

We do not weep, friend, the youth! We grow old laughing. Let us grow old as strong trees grow old, in the glory of joy and goodness.

Olavo Bilac

“Hope” is the thing with feathers, which lands on the soul and sings the melody without the words. And it never stops – not at all.

Emily Dickinson

Look on what hopes I keep myself! See what dangerous security guards! For I fear neither contrasts nor changes, walking on a brave sea, lost the wood.

Luis Vaz de Camões

The ‘sp’rança that little reaches! What desire is worth the opportunity? And a child’s ball about more than my ‘s’prance, rolls more than my desire.

Fernando Pessoa

Let only hope be a dream, while pain eternally watches. And only mistake, never misfortune!

Antero de Quental

Carry the sound of the slow, greedy waters of the gone bank, what sleepy memories of misty hopes! What dreams, the dream and the life!

Fernando Pessoa

How dark a regret! But how beautiful is hope!

Edgar Allan Poe

How to live the world in terms of hope? And what is this word that life does not reach?

Carlos Drummond deAndrade

A great hope has fallen. You didn’t hear any noise. The ruin was within.

Emily Dickinson

We walked a path that was watered with tears. We came, making our way through the blood of the fallen. Out of the dark past, so far we are finally where the white glow of our bright star is cast.

James Weldon Johnson

Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us. Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us.

James Weldon Johnson

What I’m telling you is real and it’s printed on a notice on the map. Our oblivion haunts us, walks the earth behind us, leaving a trail of paper diapers, needles and wasted blood.

Joy Harjo

Come, come, sweet Hope, the only relief for this grieving soul. It shows, in the crown, the flower of the Almond tree, which the expected Lavrador, next spring, gives new.

Philinto Elysium

Here on this bridge between starlight and clay, my hand holding tight to my other hand; come celebrate with me that every day something tried to kill me and failed.

Lucille Clifton