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William Shakespeare · 1609

“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.”

T.S. Eliot · 1915

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1818

“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!”

Sylvia Plath · 1962

“Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air.”

William Carlos Williams · 1923

“so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water”

John Keats · 1819

“My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense.”

Dylan Thomas · 1951

“Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

Maya Angelou · 1978

“Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.”

Mary Oliver · 1986

“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.”

e.e. cummings · 1952

“i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart)”

Edgar Allan Poe · 1849

“I was much too far out all my life and not waving but drowning.”

Emma Lazarus · 1883

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”

Allen Ginsberg · 1956

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.”

Robert Frost · 1916

“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both.”

T.S. Eliot · 1922

“April is the cruellest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land.”