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Favorite Lines of Poetry

What are your favorite few lines of poetry?

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susandanziger

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  • I WILL be the gladdest thing
    Under the sun!
    I will touch a hundred flowers
    And not pick one.

    from "Afternoon on a Hill" by Edna St. Vincent Millay

    apeapeApr 26, 2011 6:20 am
    by apeape

  • I met last night in Stealth with wisdom's elder,
    And asked him to divulge in full life secrets,
    This he whispered softly, softly in my ear,
    They can't be told, they must be seen, so hush.
    -Translation from Masnavi of Rumi

    sidmaryApr 26, 2011 12:35 pm
    by sidmary

  • Xanadu Kubla Khan
    A few lines from a poem
    by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~

    In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
    A stately pleasure-dome decree:
    Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
    Through caverns measureless to man
    Down to a sunless sea.

    moengeyApr 26, 2011 11:01 pm
    by moengey

  • When it's over, I want to say: all my life
    I was a bride married to amazement.
    I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

    from Mary Oliver's "When Death Comes"

    linz37Apr 27, 2011 10:16 am
    by linz37

  • Also from Kubla Khan:

    It was a miracle of rare device;
    A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice.

    Golem100Apr 27, 2011 4:04 pm
    by Golem100

  • Don't stop to speak or look around
    Your gloves and fan are on the ground
    We're getting out of town
    We're going on the run
    And you're the one I want to come

    From "The Celebration of the Lizard" by Jim Morrison

    Golem100Apr 27, 2011 4:12 pm
    by Golem100

  • The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.

    From "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost

    pachhuApr 29, 2011 2:42 am
    by pachhu

  • @pachhu: it has now become your favorite too.. :-)

    nalinibApr 29, 2011 5:03 am
    by nalinib

  • ....Smashed to the heart
    Under the ribs
    With a terrible love.
    Joy always,
    Joy everywhere~
    Let joy kill you!
    Keep away from the little deaths.
    (Carl Sandburg)

    DayLilyAug 14, 2011 8:56 pm
    by DayLily

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