Top 200 Poetry Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

— Dylan Thomas

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2. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”

— Robert Frost

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3. “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tune without the words - and never stops at all.”

— Emily Dickinson

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4. “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”

— Robert Frost

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5. “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”

— William Wordsworth

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6. “Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.”

— Rumi

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7. “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”

— Langston Hughes

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8. “Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, so dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.”

— Robert Frost

9. “I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.”

— Pablo Neruda

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10. “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more.”

— George Gordon Byron

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11. “Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. In the depths there is a spring with all the water your heart is thirsty for.”

— Rumi

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12. “Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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13. “A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”

— Robert Frost

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14. “She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes...”

— Lord Byron

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15. “A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.”

— John Keats

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16. “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”

— Emily Dickinson

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17. “April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.”

— T. S. Eliot

18. “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

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19. “All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.”

— William Shakespeare

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20. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

— John Keats

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21. “In one kiss, you’ll know all I haven’t said.”

— Pablo Neruda

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22. “They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.”

— Laurence Binyon

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23. “At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.”

— T. S. Eliot

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24. “I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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25. “I’m nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there ’s a pair of us – don’t tell! They ’d banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog!”

— Emily Dickinson

26. “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I do not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.”

— Pablo Neruda

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27. “The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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28. “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where, I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I don’t know any other way of loving.”

— Pablo Neruda

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29. “I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.”

— William Shakespeare

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30. “Knock, And He’ll open the door Vanish, And He’ll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He’ll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He’ll turn you into everything.”

— Rumi

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31. “Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.”

— Emily Dickinson

32. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.”

— Robert Frost

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33. “You are the root of heaven, the morning star, the bright moon, the house of endless Love.”

— Rumi

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34. “My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends – it gives a lovely light!”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

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35. “Poetry: the best words in the best order.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

36. “Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way.”

— Pablo Neruda

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37. “Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I’ll rise.”

— Maya Angelou

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38. “I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”

— William Wordsworth

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39. “I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that was more than love- I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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40. “Happy is the moment we sit together, with two forms, with two faces, yet one soul. You and I.”

— Rumi

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41. “For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

42. “There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?”

— Rumi

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43. “The earth laughs in flowers.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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44. “Still I’ll rise.”

— Maya Angelou

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45. “Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”

— Khalil Gibran

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46. “The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.”

— Rumi

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47. “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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48. “Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.”

— Rumi

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49. “Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?”

— Rumi

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50. “The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire. Your essence is gold hidden in dust. To reveal its splendor you need to burn in the fire of love.”

— Rumi

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