Top 200 Poetry Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.”

— Christina Rossetti

152. “To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.”

— Pablo Neruda

153. “Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”

— E.E. Cummings

154. “I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content.”

— Walt Whitman

155. “Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; ’tis her privilege, through all the years of this our life, to lead from joy to joy.”

— William Wordsworth

156. “Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.”

— Maya Angelou

157. “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”

— Rumi

158. “You’ve seen my descent, now watch my rising.”

— Rumi

159. “The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies, With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies, When love is done.”

— Francis William Bourdillon

160. “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

161. “Don’t get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.”

— Rumi

162. “When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.”

— Rumi

163. “Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.”

— Rumi

164. “The cure for pain is in the pain.”

— Rumi

165. “Love is the energizing elixir of the Universe, the cause and effect of all Harmony.”

— Rumi

166. “At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined, and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth, since we are made of earth and rain.”

— Pablo Neruda

167. “The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

— Sylvia Plath

168. “My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”

— William Shakespeare

169. “Every moment is a fresh beginning.”

— T. S. Eliot

170. “I am not this hair. I am not this skin. I am the soul that lives within.”

— Rumi

171. “I have miles to go before I sleep...”

— Robert Frost

172. “Love is the soul’s light, the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being.”

— Rumi

173. “Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.”

— John Keats

174. “Let everything happen to you: Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

175. “I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”

— Rumi

176. “Open your Eyes, for this World is only a Dream.”

— Rumi

177. “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”

— Pablo Neruda

178. “Be drunk with Love, for Love is all that exists. Where is intimacy found if not in the give and take of Love.”

— Rumi

179. “I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”

— John Keats

180. “Your light is more magnificent than sunrise or sunset.”

— Rumi

181. “I grow silent. Dear soul, you speak.”

— Rumi

182. “Move, but don’t move the way fear makes you move.”

— Rumi

183. “In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.”

— Rumi

184. “Tear off the mask. Your face is glorious.”

— Rumi

185. “It is Love that holds everything together, and it is the everything also.”

— Rumi

186. “This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.”

— Rumi

187. “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large – I contain multitudes.”

— Walt Whitman

188. “Light tomorrow with today!”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

189. “To err is human; to forgive, divine.”

— Alexander Pope

190. “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.”

— William Shakespeare

191. “This above all: to thine own self be true.”

— William Shakespeare

192. “Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.”

— Rumi

193. “Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.”

— William Wordsworth

194. “Be silent. Only the hand of God can remove the burdens of your heart.”

— Rumi

195. “Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.”

— Rumi

196. “Rest in reason. Move in Passion.”

— Khalil Gibran

197. “A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.”

— Rumi

198. “And all I loved, I loved alone.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

199. “For an artist, to be normal is a disaster.”

— Jonas Mekas

200. “In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.”

— Jonas Mekas