Here are 20 of the best and most famous English poetry quotes:



1. **"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—  

I took the one less traveled by,  

And that has made all the difference."**  

   – Robert Frost, *The Road Not Taken*


2. **"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?  

Thou art more lovely and more temperate."**  

   – William Shakespeare, *Sonnet 18*


3. **"Hope is the thing with feathers  

That perches in the soul."**  

   – Emily Dickinson, *Hope is the Thing with Feathers*


4. **"Because I could not stop for Death –  

He kindly stopped for me –"**  

   – Emily Dickinson, *Because I Could Not Stop for Death*


5. **"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."**  

   – T.S. Eliot, *The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock*


6. **"Do not go gentle into that good night,  

Old age should burn and rave at close of day;  

Rage, rage against the dying of the light."**  

   – Dylan Thomas, *Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night*


7. **"And miles to go before I sleep,  

And miles to go before I sleep."**  

   – Robert Frost, *Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening*


8. **"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."**  

   – W.B. Yeats, *He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven*


9. **"What happens to a dream deferred?  

Does it dry up  

Like a raisin in the sun?"**  

   – Langston Hughes, *Harlem*


10. **"I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)."**  

    – E.E. Cummings, *I Carry Your Heart with Me*


11. **"To live is the rarest thing in the world.  

Most people exist, that is all."**  

    – Oscar Wilde


12. **"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all  

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."**  

    – John Keats, *Ode on a Grecian Urn*


13. **"Though lovers be lost, love shall not;  

And death shall have no dominion."**  

    – Dylan Thomas, *And Death Shall Have No Dominion*


14. **"I wandered lonely as a cloud  

That floats on high o’er vales and hills."**  

    – William Wordsworth, *I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud*


15. **"Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,  

But bears it out even to the edge of doom."**  

    – William Shakespeare, *Sonnet 116*


16. **"She walks in beauty, like the night  

Of cloudless climes and starry skies."**  

    – Lord Byron, *She Walks in Beauty*


17. **"But I, being poor, have only my dreams;  

I have spread my dreams under your feet;  

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."**  

    – W.B. Yeats, *He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven*


18. **"Tyger Tyger, burning bright,  

In the forests of the night."**  

    – William Blake, *The Tyger*


19. **"Nothing gold can stay."**  

    – Robert Frost, *Nothing Gold Can Stay*


20. **"The woods are lovely, dark and deep,  

But I have promises to keep,  

And miles to go before I sleep."**  

    – Robert Frost, *Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening*























These quotes from famous English poems reflect the beauty of nature, love, life, and human experiences, capturing the essence of poetic expression.