Famous Poetry Quotes

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by. – Robert Frost

Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. – Dylan Thomas

I wandered lonely as a cloud. – William Wordsworth

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

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? – William Shakespeare

I celebrate myself, and sing myself. – Walt Whitman

Hope is the thing with feathers, That perches in the soul. – Emily Dickinson

The road not taken – Robert Frost

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me. – Emily Dickinson

To be, or not to be: that is the question. – William Shakespeare

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. – Sylvia Plath

The world is too much with us. – William Wordsworth

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. – Jane Austen

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. – William Butler Yeats

Hope springs eternal in the human breast. – Alexander Pope

I sing the body electric. – Walt Whitman

I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. – William Ernest Henley

Go placidly amid the noise and haste. – Max Ehrmann

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness. – Allen Ginsberg

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. – T.S. Eliot

I am large, I contain multitudes. – Walt Whitman

The only way out is through. – Robert Frost

We are all fools in love. – Jane Austen

In the room the women come and go, Talking of Michelangelo. – T.S. Eliot

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. – Sarah Williams

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. – William Shakespeare

I am nobody! Who are you? – Emily Dickinson

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. – William Wordsworth

Oh, the places you’ll go! – Dr. Seuss

A thing of beauty is a joy forever. – John Keats

Nothing gold can stay. – Robert Frost

O Captain! my Captain! – Walt Whitman

The hollow men, the stuffed men. – T.S. Eliot

It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea. – Edgar Allan Poe

I carry your heart with me, I carry it in my heart. – E.E. Cummings

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. – Audre Lorde

Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light. – Sarah Williams

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. – Maya Angelou

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day. – Albert Camus

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. – Edgar Allan Poe

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

I am the captain of my soul. – William Ernest Henley

Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love. – Lin-Manuel Miranda