Poetry Quotes

"'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

"Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness."

John Keats

"She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies."

Lord Byron

"Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore.'"

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Joyce Kilmer

"April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land."

T. S. Eliot

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."

William Butler Yeats

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

William Ernest Henley

"'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe."

Lewis Carroll

"The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat."

Edward Lear

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

Richard Lovelace

"Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine."

Ben Jonson

"Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove."

Christopher Marlowe

"I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky."

John Masefield

"The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers."

William Wordsworth

"Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough."

A. E. Housman

"The quality of mercy is not strain'd; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven."

"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free."

"I went looking for the bad, and found none; when I searched my own heart, I found no one worse than me."

Kabir

"Mine is Giridhar Gopal, and no one else."

Mirabai

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot."

Stephen King

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"Write hard and clear about what hurts."