Poetry Phrases

Phrases

• A little learning is a dangerous thing (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
• A narrow fellow in the grass (from a poem by Emily Dickinson)
• A thing of beauty is a joy forever (from a poem by Keats)
• And miles to go before I sleep (from a poem by Robert Frost)
• Barnyard language
• Beauty is truth, truth beauty; that is all (from a poem by Keats)
• Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me (from a poem by Dickinson)
• Body language
• Busy old fool, unruly sun (from a poem by John Donne)
• But at my back I always hear (from a poem by Marvell)
• Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker (from a poem by Nash)
• Chapter and verse
• Character driven fiction
• Charge of the Light Brigade (British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson)
• Come Into The Garden Maud (Tennyson poem and Victorian song)
• Do not go gentle into that good night (from a poem by Dylan Thomas)
• Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes (Ben Jonson poem and Victorian song)
• Fact not fiction
• Foul language
• Full fathom five thy father lies (from The Tempest by Shakespeare)
• Hope springs eternal in the human breast (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
• How do I love thee? Let me count the ways (from a poem by Browning)
• Human kind cannot bear very much reality (from a poem by Eliot)
• I am the master of my fate (from a poem by Henley)
• I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled (from a poem by Eliot)
• I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree, Kilmer)
• I wandered lonely as a cloud (from a poem by Wordsworth)
• If music be the food of love, play on (from Twelth Night by Shakespeare)
• If you can keep your head when all about you (from a poem by Kipling)
• In Flanders fields the poppies blow (from a poem by McCrae)
• In Xanadu did Kubla Khan (from a poem by Coleridge)
• Joined up writing
• Language barrier
• Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair (from a poem by Shelley)
• Mind your language

• My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (from a poem by Shakespeare)
• Not with a bang but a whimper (from a poem by Eliot)
• O Romeo, Romeo; wherefore art thou Romeo (from the play by Shakespeare)
• Poetry In Motion (Johnny Tillotson song)
• Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino movie)
• Put in writing
• Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness (from a poem by Keats)
• Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (from a poem by Shakespeare)
• Speak the same language
• Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone (from a poem by Auden)
• Stranger than fiction
• The Poet (Nickname of Etan Thomas)
• The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost poem)
• The child is father of the man (from a poem by Wordsworth)
• The lady doth protest too much, methinks (from Hamlet by Shakespeare)
• The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n (from a poem by Milton)
• The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on (from a poem by Fitzgerald)
• The old lie: Dulce et Decorum Est (from a poem by Owen)
• The proper study of mankind is man (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
• The quality of mercy is not strained (from The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare)
• The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things, Carroll)
• The writing is on the wall
• They also serve who only stand and wait (from a poem by Milton)
• Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold (from a poem by Yeats)
• Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all (from a poem by Tennyson)
• To be or not to be: that is the question (from a Hamlet by Shakespeare)
• To err is human; to forgive, divine (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
• To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield (from a poem by Tennyson)
• Tread softly because you tread on my dreams (from a poem by Yeats)
• Truth is stranger than fiction
• Watch your language
• We few, we happy few, we band of brothers (from Henry V by Shakespeare)
• What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare (from a poem by Davies)
• When I am an old woman I shall wear purple (from a poem by Joseph)
• When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes (from a sonnet by Shakespeare)