There is nothing more powerful than words.
Poets have the talent to weave stanzas together to create beautiful images and feelings. Their works are forever valued because there is always something we are able to relate to.
Enjoy these 12 lines from extraordinary poets.
1. "I'm nobody! Who are you?" -Emily Dickinson
2. "You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise. " - Maya Angelou
3. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." - John Keats
4. "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost
5. “For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.” - William Shakespeare
6. “‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all” - Tennyson
7. “Tread softly because you tread on my dreams” - William Butler Yeats
8. “Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink” - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
9. "I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment, only I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary." - Margaret Atwood
10. "Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry- I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die." - Langston Hughes
These are only a few of the powerful lines of poetry but I hope it encourages you to look for more.