World Poetry Day: Time to celebrate the power of words
The rhythm of the tongue brings wordless music into the air; it is in poetry that the human essence is refined to such ritualistic purity. It's in the steady beats, the sonorous rise-and-fall of speech; for a moment it appears as if all the mysteries of the world have unlocked themselves to our private view.
It's these works which are celebrated on World Poetry Day, falling on 21 March, in which UNESCO recognises the moving spirit of poetry and its transformative effect on culture.
In honour of these celebrations, here stands a small collection of singular lines, stanzas, and notions possessing the power which springs the most moving of thoughts and feelings.
Here are a few poetries with the most powerful lines ever written
And when wind and winter harden / All the loveless land, / It will whisper of the garden, / You will understand
'To My Wife', Oscar Wilde
This
is
the
way
the
world
ends
/
not
with
a
bang
but
a
whimper
'The
Hollow
Men',
T.S
Eliot
Out
of
the
ash,
I
rise
/
With
my
red
hair
/
And
I
eat
men
like
air
'Lady
Lazarus',
Sylvia
Plath
I
love
you
as
certain
dark
things
are
to
be
loved
/
in
secret,
between
the
shadow
and
the
soul.
'Sonnet
XVII',
Neruda
they
speak
whatever's
on
their
mind
/
they
do
whatever's
in
their
pants
/
the
boys
i
mean
are
not
refined
/
they
shake
the
mountains
when
they
dance
'the
boys
i
mean
are
not
refined',
E.
E.
Cummings
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