Poems Quotes

"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."

Robert Frost

"A good poem is a contribution to reality."

Dylan Thomas

"You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words."

Stéphane Mallarmé

"A poem should not mean But be."

Archibald MacLeish

"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."

Paul Valéry

"Every good poem begins in language awakened by a sense of wonder."

Edward Hirsch

"A poem is a naked person."

Bob Dylan

"A poem is true if it hangs together."

E. M. Forster

"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."

William Wordsworth

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

Robert Frost

"Do not go gentle into that good night."

Dylan Thomas

"Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night."

William Blake

"To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour."

William Blake

"Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly."

Langston Hughes

"I celebrate myself, and sing myself."

"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying."

Robert Herrick

"Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so."

John Donne

"To err is human, to forgive divine."

Alexander Pope

"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."

Dante Alighieri

"The river and its waves are one surf: where is the difference between the river and its waves?"

Kabir

"Weavers, weaving at break of day, Why do you weave a garment so gay?"

Sarojini Naidu

"Let me light my lamp, says the star, and never debate if it will help to remove the darkness."

"Green, how I want you green."

Federico García Lorca

"Someone will remember us, I say, even in another time."

Sappho