Poetry Quotes

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."

Rudyard Kipling

"A word after a word after a word is power."

Margaret Atwood

"Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs."

Pearl Strachan Hurd

"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning."

Mark Twain

"Language is the dress of thought."

Samuel Johnson

"Words are the voice of the heart."

Confucius

"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world."

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

Albert Einstein

"I dwell in Possibility – A fairer House than Prose."

Emily Dickinson

"Tell all the truth but tell it slant."

Emily Dickinson

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty, – that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

John Keats

"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

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate."

"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

"'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"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

"Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime."

Andrew Marvell

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

John Donne