These 44 Poetic Quotes Are Too Beautiful to Be Forgotten
There are some phrases that do more than just convey a message;
they linger in the air, painting pictures in the mind
and stirring feelings in the heart.
They are the lines we pause to reread, the words we write down
and tuck into a pocket or a journal,
saving them like small, precious stones.
This is the magic of poetic language—it doesn’t just tell us something,
it makes us feel it.
It connects us to the profound beauty, sorrow,
and wonder of being alive.
Here is a collection of such quotes,
each one a tiny work of art too beautiful to be lost to time.
Let them resonate within you.
Quotes
“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.” — Sarah Williams
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” — W.B. Yeats
“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.” — Langston Hughes
“I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o’er vales and hills.” — William Wordsworth
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.” — Kahlil Gibran
“The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.” — Carl Sandburg
“She was a wild, tangled blossom with the gentlest of thorns.” — Crystal Woods
“The sun loved the moon so much that he died every night to let her breathe.” — Anonymous
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” — Charlotte Brontë
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.” — John Keats
“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.” — Emily Dickinson
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” — Edgar Allan Poe
“The light of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.” — Kahlil Gibran
“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” — Jacques Cousteau
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am.” — Sylvia Plath
“The wind is the whisper of the world, a language of its own.” — Robert Penn Warren
“For my part, I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” — Vincent van Gogh
“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” — Leonard Cohen
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” — Oscar Wilde
“The mountains are calling and I must go.” — John Muir
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.” — Emily Dickinson
“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.” — William Blake
“The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.” — Haruki Murakami
“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.” — Mary Oliver
“I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.” — Pablo Neruda
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.” — Blaise Pascal
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“The silence of the night is a language that needs no translation.” — Debasish Mridha
“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.” — Walt Disney Company (Mulan)
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” — Albert Camus
“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.” — Emily Dickinson
“The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.” — Shannon L. Alder
“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.” — Carl Sagan
“The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.” — Molière
“The stars are the landmarks of the universe.” — Sir John Frederick William Herschel
“The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it’s gone.” — Rumi
“The horizon is but the boundary of our sight.” — Laura Ingalls Wilder
“The heart is a bloom, shoots up through the stony ground.” — U2 (lyric by Bono)
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” — Saint Augustine
“The river is everywhere.” — Hermann Hesse
“The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure.” — Jon Krakauer
“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.” — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“The light dances in ways that make you wonder if the sun has fallen in love with the earth.” — Sanober Khan
“The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” — Eden Phillpotts
