Stylist picks the best, most moving, inspiring and emotional quotes from poetry, including lines from Rupi Kaur, Nikita Gill and Emily Dickinson.

50 Of Poetry's Most Poignant Lines

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Hope Is The Thing With Feathers

my mother sacrificed her dreams

Lionmouth Door Knocker 

Wolf and Woman

Courage is a Muscle

Mother

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

Lene Gammelgaard

The Unbearable Weight of Staying

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Mirror

Stank

A Woman Speaks

To My Wife

Stop All the Clocks

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

Nancy Meyers and My Dream of Whiteness

Mrs Midas

Phenomenal Woman

Howl

The Road Not Taken

i carry your heart with me

Warning

How Do I Love Thee?

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You Are Hope In A Human Being

For the young who want to

To Autumn

Sonnet 18

Departure

A Daughter of Eve

Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening

If You Forget Me

Let America Be America Again

Heart, we will forget him!

If You Think You are Beaten

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Trees

When You are Old

An Evening

Moments

Dear, Though the Night Is Gone

Do not go gentle into that good night

A Girl

Happiness

The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls

A Red, Red Rose

The Children's Hour

When We Two Parted

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The most moving, inspiring and emotional quotes from poetry, from Emily Dickinson to Yrsa Daley-Ward.

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