Motiejus Gustaitis (Russian: Мотеюс Густайтис, 27 February 1870 – 23 December 1927) was a Lithuanian Symbolist poet, who used numerous pseudonyms (among them Balandis, Bendrakelionis, Embė, G. M., K. M.

A long-term chairman of the Žiburys Society, Gustaitis worked to establish Lithuanian schools and advocated girls' education.

At the University of Fribourg he defended his PhD thesis on orientalist influences in works, particularly The Crimean Sonnets, of poet Adam Mickiewicz.

[2] In January 1906, priest Justinas Staugaitis organized the Žiburys Society to establish and maintain various Lithuanian schools in the Suwałki Governorate (Suvalkija).

In 1914, he traveled to United States to collect donations from Lithuanian Americans for a construction of school buildings in Marijampolė, but the plans failed due to the outbreak of World War I.

[4] Gustaitis's published works could be divided into three general categories: original poetry, translations, and non-fiction texts on issues of literature and culture.

[3] His poetry and articles were published in numerous Lithuanian-language periodicals, including Ateitis, Tėvynės sargas, Vairas, Viltis, Vilniaus žinios.

[6] Gustaitis was fond of classical Greek and Roman texts and translated some of them into the Lithuanian language, including various works by Virgil (second book of Aeneid), Cicero (Catiline Orations), Horace (several poems),[3] Ovid, Demosthenes.