Poetry Quotes

"To err is human, to forgive divine."

Alexander Pope

"A little learning is a dangerous thing."

Alexander Pope

"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."

Dante Alighieri

"The love that moves the sun and the other stars."

Dante Alighieri

"Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns."

Homer

"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

"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line."

Omar Khayyam

"A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread – and Thou."

Omar Khayyam

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

"The old pond; a frog jumps in – the sound of water."

Matsuo Bashō

"Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write."

Rainer Maria Rilke

"Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write?"

Rainer Maria Rilke

"I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees."

Pablo Neruda

"Green, how I want you green."

Federico García Lorca

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

Sappho

"We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains."

Li Bai

"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Every word was once a poem."

"The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty."

"My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it."

"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

William Butler Yeats

"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry."

William Butler Yeats

"If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way."

Seamus Heaney

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

Elizabeth Bishop