Quotable Poets

Wandering lonely as a cloud to bring you the great poets! If you have a verse you think should be added to this list, just include @QuotablePoets in your tweet.

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Is it Wednesday again? Wasn't it just Wednesday, like, a week ago?

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Girls blush,sometimes, because they are alive. - Eliz. B. Browning #PoetQuote

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Tis not too late to seek a newer world. - Tennyson #PoetQuote

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. - Matthew Arnold #PoetQuote

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Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. - Robert Frost #PoetQuote

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I want to be with those who know secret things, or else alone. - Rainer Maria Rilke #PoetQuote

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I love thee with a love I seemed to lose/ With my lost saints. - Eliz. B. Browning #PoetQuote

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I have no cloth to wrap me. The kites will see that I am naked. I am ashamed to meet all these people. - Kipling #PoetQuote

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For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers. - Homer #PoetQuote

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When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. - Mary Oliver #PoetQuote

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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. - John Donne #PoetQuote

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I have a garden of my own,/ But so with roses overgrown. - Marvell #PoetQuote

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Are you the new person drawn toward me? - Walt Whitman #PoetQuote

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But the stars burn on overhead/ Unconscious of final ends. - WH Auden #PoetQuote

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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. - Robert Frost #PoetQuote

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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. - Rilke #PoetQuote

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Do you/ believe the enemy have sailed away? - Virgil #PoetQuote

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Tell us all / things from the first beginning: Grecian guile,/ your people's trials, and then your journeyings. - Virgil #PoetQuote

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All heiresses are beautiful. - John Dryden #PoetQuote

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It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. - Edmund Spenser #PoetQuote