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Best Poetry Quotes (744)

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"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" — Percy Bysshe Shelley, from Ozymandias

"Tread lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow." — Oscar Wilde, from Requiescat

"And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep; And then,…" — Emily Dickinson, from The heart asks pleasure first

"Sweet, there is nothing left to say But this, that love is never lost, Keen winter stabs the breasts of May Whose crims…" — Oscar Wilde, from Her Voice

"But surely it is something to have been The best belovèd for a little while, To have walked hand in hand with Love, and…" — Oscar Wilde, from Apologia

"My spirit is too weak—mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godl…" — John Keats, from On Seeing the Elgin Marbles

"There grew pied wind-flowers and violets, Daisies, those pearled Arcturi of the earth, The constellated flower that nev…" — Percy Bysshe Shelley, from The Question

"Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your souls on earth! Have ye souls in heaven too, Double-lived in regions n…" — John Keats, from Ode: 'Bards of Passion and of Mirth'

"And thus, without a wing, Or service of a keel, Our summer made her light escape Into the beautiful." — Emily Dickinson, from As imperceptibly as grief

"I too announce solid things, Science, ships, politics, cities, factories, are not nothing, Like a grand procession to m…" — Walt Whitman, from As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days

"What was he doing, the great god Pan, Down in the reeds by the river? Spreading ruin and scattering ban, Splashing and …" — Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from A Musical Instrument

"I'M nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too?" — Emily Dickinson, from I'm nobody! Who are you?

"It keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell Gluts twice ten thousand caverns, till t…" — John Keats, from On the Sea

"Or like forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings Give various response to each varying blast, To whose frail frame no s…" — Percy Bysshe Shelley, from Mutability

"I'M nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there's a pair of us—don't tell! They'd banish us, you know." — Emily Dickinson, from I'm nobody! Who are you?

"O poeta é um fingidor Finge tão completamente Que chega a fingir que é dor A dor que deveras sente. E os que lêem o qu…" — Fernando Pessoa, from AUTOPSICOGRAFIA

"Never its mysteries are exposed To the weak human eye unclosed" — Edgar Allan Poe, from Dream-Land

"Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that ha…" — Percy Bysshe Shelley, from To the Moon

"A NOISELESS patient spider, I mark'd where on a little promontory it stood isolated, Mark'd how to explore the vacant v…" — Walt Whitman, from A Noiseless Patient Spider

"The trumpet of a prophecy! O, Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" — Percy Bysshe Shelley, from Ode to the West Wind

"Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse stra…" — Percy Bysshe Shelley, from To a Skylark

"As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need. Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I …" — Percy Bysshe Shelley, from Ode to the West Wind

"Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!" — Percy Bysshe Shelley, from Ode to the West Wind

"By a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only, Where an Eidolon, named Night, On a black throne reigns upri…" — Edgar Allan Poe, from Dream-Land

"Thy soul shall find itself alone 'Mid dark thoughts of the grey tomb-stone — Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thi…" — Edgar Allan Poe, from Spirits of the Dead

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