Words have a special kind of magic, and on March 21, we celebrate the most magical form of all—poetry.
World Poetry Day brings people together across countries, languages, and cultures to honor the power of poems to touch our hearts and open our minds.
Think about how a few carefully chosen words can make you feel so much—they can bring tears to your eyes, make you laugh out loud, or help you see the world in a completely new way.
That’s the gift of poetry, and it’s been with us since ancient times. In fact, one of the first written poems, the Epic of Gilgamesh, dates back to around 2000 BCE!
UNESCO started World Poetry Day in 1999 to celebrate this beautiful art form that helps endangered languages survive and connects people across borders.
On this day, people gather for poetry readings, schools teach special poetry lessons, and bookstores highlight poetry collections.
It’s a day when we remember that, no matter how different we may seem, we all share the same hopes, fears, dreams, and feelings—and poetry helps us express them.
As you read these iconic quotes from famous poets, think about how their words travel through time and space to speak directly to your heart.
These poets have captured little pieces of what it means to be human—the joy, the pain, the wonder, and the beauty of life—and shared them with all of us through the timeless art of poetry.
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Happy World Poetry Day Wishes and Messages
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May your day be sprinkled with verses and rhymes that make your soul dance!
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Words are the colors of the mind – paint beautifully this Poetry Day!
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Wishing you metaphors that surprise and similes that delight on World Poetry Day!
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May poetry fill the empty spaces between your heartbeats today and always.
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Here’s to the music of language and the rhythm of thoughts on Poetry Day!
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Let your inner poet roam free today – the world needs your unique voice!
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May you find poetry in ordinary moments and beauty in simple words today.
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Celebrating the art that speaks when words alone cannot. Happy Poetry Day!
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To the poet in you – may your words flow like rivers and shine like stars today!
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Wishing you stanzas of joy and verses of inspiration on World Poetry Day!
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May the poems you read today whisper exactly what your heart needs to hear.
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Here’s to the power of poetry to heal, connect, and transform! Happy Poetry Day!
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May your day be as beautiful as a perfectly crafted haiku. Poetry lives in you!
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Wishing you a day where every word feels like the perfect one. Happy Poetry Day!
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May poetry remind you today that you’re never alone in your feelings.
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Here’s to finding your rhythm and rhyme in this beautiful, chaotic world!
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May the poets of yesterday inspire the poet in you today!
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Sending verses of happiness and stanzas of peace your way this Poetry Day!
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May poetry unlock doors to worlds you’ve never imagined. Happy exploring!
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Your life is a poem waiting to be written – make today’s verse a beautiful one!
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May you speak in poetry and listen with your heart today and always.
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Wishing you the courage to share your verses and the joy of discovering others’.
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May poetry lift your spirits and carry your dreams higher than ever today!
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Here’s to the words that find us when we need them most. Happy Poetry Day!
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May you experience the world through a poet’s eyes today – everything is extraordinary!
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Wishing you poems that make you laugh, cry, and feel intensely alive today!
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May the poetry of life reveal itself to you in unexpected moments today.
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Here’s to the power of well-chosen words and the spaces between them!
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May your inner rhythm sync with the universe’s poetry today!
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The only language of the heart is poetry. Write a poem and speak your heart out on this day. Happy World Poetry Day!
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Wishing you a day where words bloom like flowers in your mind.
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May poetry be your compass when the path ahead seems unclear.
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Here’s to finding poetry in both sunshine and rain. Happy Poetry Day!
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May words wrap around you like a warm embrace on this special day.
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Wishing you poetic moments that take your breath away today!
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May the poetry you discover today change something inside you forever.
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Here’s to seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary through poetry’s lens!
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May your heart speak in verses and your mind dance with rhymes today!
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Wishing you poetry that makes you feel less alone and more alive!
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May today remind you that your life story is the most beautiful poem of all.
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Here’s to the words that have saved us, shaped us, and shown us who we are. Happy World Poetry Day!
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A poet gathers the past, the present, and the future and spills them into poetry that can survive an eternity. Happy World Poetry Day!
Famous Quotes About Poetry
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“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”- Robert Frost
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“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.”-Kahlil Gibran
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“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is the painting that is felt rather than seen.” – Leonardo da Vinci
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“Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.” – Aberjhani
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“Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“Every heart sings a song, incomplete until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”- Plato
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“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”- Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
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“A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.” – Aberjhani
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“Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivates the mightiest of offices to humbly heed lessons in compassion.” – Aberjhani
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“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”- Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
Iconic Quotes From Famous Poets
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‘But I, being poor, have only my dreams;I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.’ – Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by William Butler Yeats
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‘I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.’ – Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
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‘Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise. That I dance like I’ve got diamonds. At the meeting of my thighs?’ – From Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
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‘He was my North, my South , my East and my West. My working week and my Sunday rest. My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever, I was wrong.’ – From Funeral Blues by W.H. Auden
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‘Herr God, Herr Lucifer, Beware. Beware. Out of the ash I rise with my red hair And I eat men like air.’ – From Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath
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‘Love is not love. Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove:O no; it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests, and is never shaken.’ – From Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
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‘I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.’ – From Every Day You Play by Pablo Neruda
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‘I’m with you in Rockland in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night’ – From Howl by Allen Ginsberg
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‘Money has a habit of going to the head. I have some for a rainy day underneath me bed. Money problems make it hard to relax. Money makes it difficult to get down to the facts. Money makes you worship vanity and lies. Money is a drug with legal highs’ – From Money by Benjamin Zephaniah
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‘Hope is the thing with feathers, That perches in the soul,. And sings the tune without words,And never stops-at all.’ – From ”Hope’ is the thing with feathers – (314)’ by Emily Dickinson
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‘Thy cheek begins to redden thro’ the gloom, Thy sweet eyes brighten slowly close to mine, Ere yet they blind the stars, and the wild team. Which love thee, yearning for thy yoke, arise, And shake the darkness from their loosen’d manes, And beat the twilight into flakes of fire.’ – From Tithonus by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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‘here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the budand the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart. I carry your heart(I carry it in my heart)’ – From I carry your heart with me (I carry it in) by E.E. Cummings
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‘Pillow’d upon my fair love’s ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever—or else swoon to death.’ – From Bright Star by John Keats
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‘And when wind and winter harden. All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden,You will understand.’ – From To My Wife by Oscar Wilde
