Quote Your Favorite Poets Here.

All of us have a favorite line or two or thousands
from our favorite poets: Lets list them here.

"Poets are proud and disgraceful
and nobody knows why"

Chinese poet, Du Fu, 745 AD

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“Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.”

“Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.”

“Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.”

- all Philip Larkin (1922-1985)

He was the greatest for me. Absolutely love him.

Great thread Dah! Look forward to replies.


Arron

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"Be yourself, everyone else is already taken" ~ Oscar Wilde

"A good friend will stab you in the front" ~ Oscar Wilde

"Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me." ~ Jim Morrison

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"Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity"

Arthur Rimbaud,1872

Andre' Breton, the founder of Surrealism, called Rimbaud "the most prodigious teen-age poet the world will ever know".

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I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!

Emily Dickinson

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"Why do leaves commit suicide when they feel yellow?"

-Pablo Neruda.


Good idea, Dah.

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I have to post this because King David was one bad ass poet: lol, ya

http://esv.scripturetext.com/psalms/69.htm


PS I am friends with Ministry- Chicago's Finest

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I've got all of the world's dreams inside of me

Portuguese poet, Fernando Pessoa, 1915

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"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry" Edgar Allan Poe

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
Edgar Allan Poe


I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
Jim Morrison


this is a great thread dah... there are many edgar allen poe quotes that i love but these two seem to fit my feeling today

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Autumnal


If it be strange and sorrowful
To scent the first night frost in autumntide;
If on the moaning eve that summer died
Men shuddered, awed to hear her burial;
And if the dissolution of one rose
{Whereof the future holds unnumbered store}
Engender human tears, -ah! how much more
Sorrows and suffers he whose sense foreknows.
The weakening and withering of a love,
The dying of a love that had been dear!
Who feels upon a hand, but late love-warm,
A hardness of indifference, like a glove;
And in the dead calm of a voice may hear
the menace of a dreary and mighty storm.

-Wilfred Owen (WWI Poet)

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"I write poetry, I write poetry, gentlemen, and please,
don't call me a poetess" —I am a poet.

Spanish poet, Gloria Fuertes

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I have a couple Jim Morrison ones

“People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend...”


“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”

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while cupping images of you in my mind only to search
through them for something alive:


A blue tear frozen on your delicate wing
Dahlusion Originalpoetry.com

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In the event of my Demise
when my heart can beat no more
I Hope I Die For A Principle
or A Belief that I had Lived 4
I will die Before My Time
Because I feel the shadow's Depth
so much I wanted 2 accomplish
before I reached my Death
I have come 2 grips with the possibility
and wiped the last tear from My eyes
I Loved All who were Positive
In the event of my Demise

Tupac Shakur

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Gun-Free Japan

Japanese kid
somewhere in America
mistakes the night
October 30th.

Wrong house.
Rings doorbell.

Trick the treat?
Trick on treat?

His last thoughts
were of his bad grammar
and his choice of
esoteric costume;
a mortal husk.

-Gordon Downie

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I Dream That I Can Piss In God's Eye

poet, Anne Sexton, 1974

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I would not eat green eggs and ham.
I do not like them, Sam-I-am.

Poet: Dr. Seuss

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I LOVE Dr Suess! When my kids were in grade school, I would go to their class and read Dr Suess aloud. Yertle the Turtle, The Things You Can Think, Green Eggs and Ham, etc...

Thanks for the quote, Londo - brought back some good memories!!

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I would not eat green eggs and ham.
I do not like them, Sam-I-am.

Poet: Dr. Seuss

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“I envy (in a manner of speaking) any man
who has the time to prepare something like a book
and who, having reached the end, finds the means
to be interested in its fate which, after all, it creates for him” —Andre’ Breton, 1928

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"We played Dungeons and Dragons for three hours! Then I was slain by an elf."

Bart Simpson

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Autumn Nibbles A Leaf From My Hand, We Are Friends

Ukrainian, Paul Celan

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“Listen to them, they're dying, R2. Curse my metal body. I wasn't fast enough. It's all my fault. My poor master.” C-3PO

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"One speaks to God as one speaks to the far-side of silence"

French poet, Edmond Jabes

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