Top 200 Poetry Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber’d here While these visions did appear.”

— William Shakespeare

102. “For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.”

— William Shakespeare

103. “Somewhere in the world another cry is making up the road to stars, leaving behind the shots of guns from other’s fears, from other’s wars. Do not take for granted morning glance. There is a sign from Deity that love is blessing the life’s rhyme. Keeping the hope tight in the heart, for peace to wipe world’s cry apart.”

— Simona Prilogan

104. “Defeat, my defeat, my deathless courage, You and I shall laugh together with the storm, And together we shall dig graves for all that die in us, and we shall stand in the sun with a will, And we shall be dangerous.”

— Khalil Gibran

105. “Open your arms if you want the Beloved’s embrace.”

— Rumi

106. “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”

— Pablo Neruda

107. “Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.”

— William Shakespeare

108. “Don’t surrender your loneliness so quickly. Let it cut you more deeply. Let it ferment and season you as few human and even divine ingredients can. Something missing in my heart tonight has made my eyes so soft, my voice so tender, my need for God absolutely clear.”

— Hafez

109. “O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death!”

— William Shakespeare

110. “Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.”

— Dylan Thomas

111. “A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. ”

— Robert Frost

112. “But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”

— William Butler Yeats

113. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

— William Shakespeare

114. “I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”

— Walt Whitman

115. “A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon’d, and some punished: For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”

— William Shakespeare

116. “There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.”

— Khalil Gibran

117. “Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

118. “As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”

— Pablo Neruda

119. “A Mother’s love is something that no one can explain, It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain, It is endless and unselfish and enduring come what may For nothing can destroy it or take that love away.”

— Helen Steiner Rice

120. “You have no need to travel anywhere – journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.”

— Rumi

121. “The stars are far brighter Than gems without measure, The moon is far whiter Than silver in treasure; The fire is more shining On hearth in the gloaming Than gold won by mining, So why go a-roaming? O! Tra-la-la-lally Come back to the Valley.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

122. “With passion pray. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?”

— Rumi

123. “I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?”

— Emily Dickinson

124. “Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.”

— Rumi

125. “Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.”

— John Milton

126. “Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”

— Rumi

127. “Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.”

— Emily Dickinson

128. “I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.”

— E.E. Cummings

129. “Bring the pure wine of love and freedom. But sir, a tornado is coming. More wine, we’ll teach this storm A thing or two about whirling.”

— Rumi

130. “Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, “Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.” You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along.”

— Gwendolyn Brooks

131. “Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.”

— Robert Herrick

132. “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”

— William Wordsworth

133. “You are the soul of the soul of the universe, and your name is Love.”

— Rumi

134. “Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they’re given wings.”

— Rumi

135. “In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.”

— Dante Alighieri

136. “This life’s dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.”

— William Blake

137. “You wander from room to room Hunting for the diamond necklace That is already around your neck!”

— Rumi

138. “But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”

— William Shakespeare

139. “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

140. “Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean.”

— Rumi

141. “When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.”

— William Shakespeare

142. “And don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It’s quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.”

— Rumi

143. “I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.”

— Walt Whitman

144. “Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.”

— Maya Angelou

145. “Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours.”

— Rumi

146. “I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

147. “The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.”

— William Shakespeare

148. “Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.”

— Rumi

149. “I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”

— Pablo Neruda

150. “I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.”

— Walt Whitman