What line of poetry has stayed with you the longest?

[Nina81]

Some words arrive quietly and never really leave. A poem can be only a few lines long and still sit in the mind like a small candle in a dark room.

I have been thinking about the lines we carry around without meaning to. The ones that appear when life is messy, when the house is silent, when the kettle clicks off and there is suddenly space to remember.

Do you have a line of poetry, from any poet or song, that has stayed with you for years? It does not need to be famous or clever. Sometimes the simplest line is the one that knows where we live.

If anyone wants a gentle poetry book to dip into, The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul is the sort of thing that suits a quiet evening and a full mind

[Hollow Coder]

Mine changes depending on what sort of week I am having. The lines that stay with me usually are not the grand dramatic ones, but the ones that make ordinary sadness feel understood

[TheRizz]

I like poetry more when I do not have to study it. School made it feel like a puzzle with one correct answer. Reading it as an adult feels much more personal

[Di87]

There is something lovely about a single line doing more than a whole chapter sometimes. It can be a shortcut straight into a feeling

[SortedBuilder]

I do not read much poetry, but song lyrics do this for me. A good lyric can follow you around for decades

[BretHart]

I think the best poems are the ones that seem simple when you first read them, then get heavier the older you get