Poetry Quotes

What poem is this quote from?

"But I, being poor, have only my dreams;I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

• Lake Isle Of Innisfree

• Caged Bird

• Touched by an Angel

• He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

What poem is this quote from?

"And when the war is done and youth stone dead,I'd toddle safely home and die — in bed."

• Dulce et Decorum est

• Base Details

• Still I Rise

• Digging

What poem is this quote from? "I sat all morning in the college sick bay

Counting bells knelling classes to a close."

• Midterm Break

• Base Details

• Daffodils

• Caged Bird

What poem is this quote from? "Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,

And live alone in the bee-loud glade."

• Still I Rise

• Digging

• Lake Isle of Innisfree

• Daffodils

What poem is this quote from? "Between my finger and my thumb

The squat pen rests."

• Daffodils

• Digging

• Midterm Break

• Mossbawn: Sunlight

What poem is this quote from? "You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may trod me in the very dirt"

• Touched by an Angel

• Still I Rise

• Caged Bird

• Dulce et Decorum est

What poem is this quote from?

"Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling

Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,

But someone still was yelling out and stumbling

And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.—"

• Base Details

• Dulce et Decorum est

• Lake Isle of Innisfree

• Daffodils

What poem is this quote from?

"sings   

with a fearful trill   

of things unknown   

but longed for still   

and his tune is heard   

on the distant hill   "

• Caged Bird

• Digging

• Touched by an Angel

• Daffodils

What poem is this quote from? "I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd"

• Lake Isle of Innisfree

• Daffodils

• Mossbawn: Sunlight

• Digging

What poem is this quote from?

"Now she dusts the board with a goose’s wing, now sits, broad-lapped, with whitened nails"

• Lake Isle of Innisfree

• He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

• Mossbawn: Sunlight

• Daffodils