Famous poetry quotes

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

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? – William Shakespeare

It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea… – Edgar Allan Poe

Do I dare disturb the universe? – T.S. Eliot

I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) – E.E. Cummings

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. – Emily Dickinson

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am. – Sylvia Plath

If you have the words, there’s always a chance that you’ll find the way. – Seamus Heaney

I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul. – William Ernest Henley

When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me – Christina Rossetti

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry. – John Donne

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself astray in a dark wood where the straight road had been lost sight of. – Dante Alighieri

To be or not to be, that is the question. – William Shakespeare

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

What if I fall? Oh, but my darling, what if you fly? – Erin Hanson

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep. – Robert Frost

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

I wandered lonely as a cloud. – William Wordsworth

I celebrate myself, and sing myself. – Walt Whitman

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower. – William Blake

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. – Louisa May Alcott

I loved you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. – Pablo Neruda

The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night. – Haruki Murakami

There is unrest in a forest, there is trouble with the trees. – Neil Young

I hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it when I sorrow most; ‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

We know what we are, but know not what we may be. – William Shakespeare

I am no bird, and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. – Charlotte Brontë

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. – Langston Hughes

The only way out is through. – Robert Frost

No man is an island, Entire of itself, Every man is a piece of the continent. – John Donne

How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog, To tell your name the livelong day to an admiring bog! – Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me. – Emily Dickinson

We do not remember days, we remember moments. – Cesare Pavese

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves. – William Shakespeare

I am the two-headed one, My two heads turn in shadows on my neck. – Sylvia Plath

Everything you can imagine is real. – Pablo Picasso

Do not go gentle into that good night. – Dylan Thomas

I am a part of all that I have met. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. – Jane Austen

A gentle knight was pricking on the plain… – Edmund Spenser

The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring. – Ambrose Philips

A thing of beauty is a joy forever. – John Keats

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. – Pablo Picasso

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. – Emily Dickinson

I have surpassed what I am, what shall be, and still I am not satisfied. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Dreams are our only geography – our native land. – Dejan Stojanovic

Life is a voyage, and it is its subject, as is death. – Thomas Mann