Top 200 Poetry Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.”

— Maya Angelou

52. “Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.”

— Rumi

53. “Rage, rage against the dying light.”

— Dylan Thomas

54. “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

55. “The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.”

— John Milton

56. “Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

— Alfred Tennyson

57. “If you love someone, you are always joined with them – in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.”

— Rumi

58. “Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?”

— Rumi

59. “Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.”

— Rumi

60. “You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise!”

— Maya Angelou

61. “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

62. “That’s how you came here, like a star without a name. Move across the night sky with those anonymous lights.”

— Rumi

63. “This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.”

— Rumi

64. “Purify your eyes, and see the pure world. Your life will fill with radiant forms.”

— Rumi

65. “Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”

— William Shakespeare

66. “Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”

— Rumi

67. “You have been a prisoner of a little pond. I am the ocean and its turbulent flood. Come, merge with me, leave this world of ignorance.”

— Rumi

68. “Dance, and make joyous the love around you. Dance, and your veils which hide the Light shall swirl in a heap at your feet.”

— Rumi

69. “The question, O me! so sad, recurring – What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here – that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.”

— Walt Whitman

70. “Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.”

— Khalil Gibran

71. “Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”

— E.E. Cummings

72. “At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love-window. The moon won’t use the door, only the window.”

— Rumi

73. “To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.”

— William Blake

74. “Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?”

— Rumi

75. “You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.”

— Rumi

76. “Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.”

— Robert Frost

77. “To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

78. “We are born of love. Love is our mother.”

— Rumi

79. “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”

— John Keats

80. “The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don’t go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don’t go back to sleep!”

— Rumi

81. “Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

82. “That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”

— William Wordsworth

83. “You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”

— Mary Oliver

84. “Through love, all pain will turn to medicine.”

— Rumi

85. “Love is the bridge between you and everything.”

— Rumi

86. “The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

— John Keats

87. “I am so mad with love that mad men say to me – be still!”

— Rumi

88. “Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

89. “And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

— Khalil Gibran

90. “Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

91. “Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”

— Rumi

92. “The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”

— Rumi

93. “What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.”

— William Shakespeare

94. “The heart will break, but broken live on.”

— Lord Byron

95. “Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in your own.”

— Adam Lindsay Gordon

96. “The lamps are different, but the Light is the same. One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind, endlessly emanating all things.”

— Rumi

97. “If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.”

— Rumi

98. “But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”

— Khalil Gibran

99. “Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.”

— William Shakespeare

100. “Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure. Love that is washed by tears will remain eternally pure and faithful.”

— Khalil Gibran