100+ Powerful Poem Quotes: How to Quote Lines from a Poem Effectively

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

If I had to live my life without you, I wouldn’t call it living.

In your arms, I’ve found my home.

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

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

Every time I see you, I fall in love all over again.

You’re every reason, every hope, and every dream I’ve ever had.

To the world, you may be one person, but to me, you are the world.

I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect, and I loved you even more.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.

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

I am alone, alone with my thoughts and the silence that answers them.

The night is dark and full of yearning.

I miss you like a season that never returns.

Even among people, I feel like an echo.

My soul is tired of waiting for someone who may never come.

There is no remedy for memory but to love again.

I wanted to tell you everything, but now there’s nothing left to say.

Silence speaks louder than words when loneliness is the listener.

I search for your name in every passing wind.

The ache of absence is its own kind of presence.

I built a home in your eyes and then became homeless.

Sometimes silence isn’t peace—it’s the breath before sorrow speaks.

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

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

She believed she could, so she did.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

I am enough. I am strong. I am worthy.

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’

You were born to stand out, not to blend in.

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.

You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The earth has music for those who listen.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills.

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.

Whosoever is happy, let him follow the way of water—gentle, persistent, and deep.

The mountains are calling, and I must go.

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

The sun rises not to please anyone, but because it cannot help but shine.

Earth laughs in flowers.

Listen to the wind, it talks. Listen to the silence, it speaks.

There is a calmness about a great deal of art inspired by nature that is healing.

Stars are the campfires of wandering angels.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time’ is like saying ‘I don’t want to.’

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

What is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I wish to explain it to one who asks, I know not.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Everything passes. Everything comes and goes. But the beauty remains in the moment.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

I’m not sure why I was born, but I’m pretty sure it was to make bad decisions poetically.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I have a PhD in loving you.

I asked the mirror who’s the fairest of all—then realized I was talking to a wall.

I told my diary my secrets, then worried it would leak them to my notes app.

I don’t need therapy—I just need a nap and someone to quote Neruda to me.

My soul is made of metaphors, but my bank account is made of dust.

I tried to write a haiku, but I ran out of syllables on line two.

I fell in love with a metaphor once—turns out it was just a simile.

Coffee first, philosophy later. My neurons need coaxing.

I don’t always quote poetry, but when I do, I misattribute it.

I wanted to be profound, but my Wi-Fi disconnected mid-thought.

Poetry saved my life—though sometimes I think it overdramatized the crisis.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Although nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower, we will grieve not.

Perhaps they are not stars, but rather holes in the sky where all our loved ones shine through.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives.

Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth.

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.

After the pain, there is peace. After the storm, there is stillness.

Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give but cannot.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops.

No tyrant can enslave the mind of a free thinker.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me.

Freedom is not given; it is taken.

They can jail the body, but never the idea.

I will not bow. I will not break. I will rise.

Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted.

Rebellion is the confession of faith in humanity’s potential.

Better to die standing than to live on your knees.

The revolution begins in the mind.

Break the chains, speak the truth, live the dream.

I am fire, and I will not be contained.

Resistance is the seed from which freedom grows.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.

Where there is ruin, there is hope for treasure.

Knock, and He’ll open the door. Vanish, and He’ll make you a threshold.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

God is the friend of silence. See how nature—trees, flowers, grass—grows in silence.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.

When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew—love at first sight is real.

Peace begins with a smile.

Still I rise.

Do not go gentle into that good night.

I contain multitudes.

Hope is the thing with feathers.

I am large, I contain multitudes.

Light breaks where no sun shines.

I burn, I pine, I perish.

Not all who wander are lost.

The world is too much with us.

I think, therefore I am.

All the world’s a stage.

I am the walrus.