National Poetry Day: 28 of the most powerful poetry lines ever written
To celebrate National Poetry Day, here are a small collection of singular lines, stanzas, and notions possessing the power to spring the most moving of thoughts and feelings into the humming imagination of the reader.
Such poets as TS Eliot, Pablo Neruda, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Wilfred Owen are all included.
Other much-celebrated authors to feature include Margaret Atwood, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath and Maya Angelou.
Click through the gallery below to see the 28 poetry lines The Independent has selected.
