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National Poetry Day 2018: 28 of the most powerful lines ever written

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 International Poetry Day, falling on 21 March, in which we recognise the moving spirit of poetry and its transformative effect on culture. From 15p €0.18 $0.18 USD 0.27 a day, more exclusives, analysis and extras.In honour of these celebrations, here stands a small collection of singular lines, stanzas, and notions possessing of a power which springs the most moving of thoughts and feelings off of the page and into the humming imagination of its readers. Click through the gallery below. Because I could not stop for Death, / He kindly stopped for me; / The carriage held but just ourselves / And Immortality

'Because I could not stop for Death', Emily Dickinson And when wind and winter harden / All the loveless land, / It will whisper of the garden, / You will understand

'To My Wife', Oscar Wilde