Poems Quotes

"The art of losing isn't hard to master."

Elizabeth Bishop

"'Hope' is the thing with feathers – That perches in the soul – And sings the tune without the words – And never stops – at all."

Emily Dickinson

"I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree."

Joyce Kilmer

"I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul."

William Ernest Henley

"Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage."

Richard Lovelace

"The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful."

Robert Penn Warren

"A poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit."

Archibald MacLeish

"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears."

Octavio Paz

"My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night."

Edna St. Vincent Millay