Poetry Quotes

"The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same." "The brain is wider than the sky " "I am younger each year at the first snow Please be my alarm clock Love and stop me in time" "Always be a poet, even in prose" "The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough." "He was as fresh as is the month of May" "Your children are not your children They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself" "Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror But you are eternity and you are the mirror" "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" "Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby" "Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it" "April is the cruellest month" "This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper" "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes)" "I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you" "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" "He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise" "A thing of beauty is a joy forever" "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter" "Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know"