In honor of National Poetry Month, each of our April quotes will be taken from a poem.

April 1st
April, April,
Laugh thy girlish laughter;
Then, the moment after,
Weep thy girlish tears!
- William Watson, "Song"

April 2nd
The mind --- is not the heart.
I may yet live, as I know others live,
To wish in vain to let go with the mind ---
Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me
That I need learn to let go with the heart.
- Robert Frost, "Wild Grapes"

April 3rd
We never know how high we are
Till we are asked to rise
And then if we are true to plan
Our statures touch the skies
- Emily Dickinson, "We Never Know How High We Are"

April 4th
We are weaned from our timidity
In the flush of love's light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.
- Maya Angelou, "Touched by An Angel"

April 5th
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;
Whenever you’re right, shut up.
- Ogden Nash, "A Word to Husbands"

April 6th
Ironically, you thrill
Me not with goodness, but with thundering verse.
- Allen Tate, "John Milton"

April 7th
A still small voice spake unto me,
“Thou art so full of misery,
Were it not better not to be?”
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Two Voices"

April 8th
The loss of love is a terrible thing;
They lie who say that death is worse.
- Countee Cullen, "The Loss of Love"

April 9th
The poet and the dreamer are distinct,
Diverse, sheer opposite, antipodes.
The one pours out a balm upon the world,
The other vexes it.
- John Keats, “The Fall of Hyperion”

April 10th
Light is more important than the lantern,
The poem more important than the notebook,
And the kiss more important than the lips.
- Nizar Qabanni, "Light is More Important than the Lantern"

April 11th
But I love your feet
only because they walked
upon the earth and upon
the wind and upon the waters,
until they found me.
- Pablo Neruda, "Your Feet"

April 12th
For us, there is only trying. The rest is not our business.
- T. S. Eliot, "East Coker"

April 13th
'Twas the apple that in Eden
Caused our father's primal fall;
And the Trojan War, remember ---
'Twas an apple caused it all.
So for weeks I've hesitated,
You can guess the reason why,
For I want to tell my darling
She's the apple of my eye.
- Paul Laurence Dunbar, "The Unlucky Apple"

April 14th
When I am frayed and strained and drizzle at the end
Please someone cut a square and put me in a quilt
That I might keep some child warm
And some old person with no one else to talk to
Will hear my whispers
And cuddle
near
- Nikki Giovanni, "Quilts"

April 15th
Oh how I once loved tuna salad
Pork and lobsters, lamb chops too
'Til I stopped and looked at dinner
>From the dinner's point of view.
- Shel Silverstein, "Point of View"

April 16th
All that he did was to remember
Like the old and be honest like children.
- W. H. Auden, "In Memory of Sigmund Freud"

April 17th
Imagine if your precious nose
were sandwiched in between your toes,
that clearly would not be a treat,
for you'd be forced to smell your feet.
- Jack Prelutzky, "Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face"

April 18th
I would liken you
To a night without stars
Were it not for your eyes.
I would liken you
To a sleep without dreams
Were it not for your songs.
- Langston Hughes, "Quiet Girl"

April 19th
It's in her nature
to fear failure
but not to let that fear
blot out
her lines.
- Erica Jong, "The Poet Fears Failure"

April 20th
I have heard of reasons manifold
Why Love must needs be blind,
But this the best of all I hold, ---
His eyes are in his mind.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "To a Lady, Offended by a Sportive Observation"

April 21st
I am everywhere,
I suffer and move, my mind and my heart move
With all that move me
- John Berryman, "The Ball Poem

April 22nd
Like the water
of a deep stream,
love is always too much.
- Wendell Berry, "Like the Water"

April 23rd
Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
- Arnold Lobel, from WHISKERS & RHYMES

April 24th
I never saw so sweet a face
As that I stood before:
My heart has left its dwelling-place
And can return no more.
- John Clare, "First Love"

April 25th
Never try to trick me with a kiss
Pretending that the birds are here to stay
- Sylvia Plath, "Never Try To Trick Me With A Kiss"

April 26th
When such as I cast out remorse
So great a sweetness flows into the breast
We must laugh and we must sing,
We are blest by everything,
Everything we look upon is blest.
- William Butler Yeats, "A Dialogue of Self and Soul" II, st. 4

April 27th
If soul may look and body touch,
Which is the more blest?
- Wallace Stevens, "The Lady's Second Song," st. 3

April 28th
I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine to-night.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci, Act I, sc. iii, l. 88

April 29th
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
- John Donne, "Verse Letter to Sir Henry Wotton"

April 30th
O Reader! had you in your mind
Such stores as silent thought can bring,
O gentle Reader! you would find
A tale in everything.
- William Wordsworth, "Simon Lee: The Old Huntsman"