Browsing Topic Best Best Poetry Quotes

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.

I carry your heart with me. I carry it in my heart.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

And this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart I carry your heart [ i carry it in my heart ]

here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.

The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.