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12-12-2010 at 09:43:27 PM

Hiporlacking
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RE: Quote Your Favorite Poets Here.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

~Plato

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12-12-2010 at 10:56:43 PM

WordSlinger
Posts: 1306

RE: Quote Your Favorite Poets Here.

Words to live by:

My choice is what I chose to do;
and if I'm causing no harm,
it shouldn't bother you.
Your choice is who you chose to be;
and if your causing no harm, then your alright with me.

The Innocent Criminals

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12-12-2010 at 11:09:55 PM

SuSpence
Posts: 113

RE: Quote Your Favorite Poets Here.

'Kill two stones with one bird' ~SuperChick62 Haha

~Spence

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12-12-2010 at 11:26:19 PM

SuperChick62
Posts: 27

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'Kill two stones with one bird' ~SuperChick62 Haha

~Spence

I LOVE YOU! awesome!!!

Seriously, though... Here's a few of my favorites:

"All you need is LOVE" ~ Beatles

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” ~ Robert Frost

"In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on." ~ Robert Frost

"Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans" ~ John Lennon

"And in the end, the Love you take is equal to the Love you make" ~ The Beatles

"My shoes are too tight, but it doesn't matter, because I have forgotten how to dance." ~ Londo Mollari, Babylon 5

'The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.' ~ Bob Marley

'Oh my name it is nothin' My age it means less.' ~ Bob Dylan

'I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours' ~ Bob Dylan

"Some say the world will end in fire;
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice." ~ Robert Frost

"Is it a sin to love thee? Then my soul is deeply dyed" ~ The Best Loved Poems of the American People(artist unknown)

"No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow." ~ Susan Ivanova, Babylon 5

"C'est La Vie"

"Live and Let Die" ~ Paul McCartney

"Drugs, sex, rock'n'roll, Speed, weed birth control. Life's a bitch and then you die, so fuck the world and let's get high."

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." ~ Dr. Suess(My hero!)

"Dream on... Dream until your dream comes true." ~ Aerosmith

While attending a dinner party one evening, Poet Laureate Robert Frost and his fellow guests were invited onto a veranda to watch the sun set. "Oh, Mr. Frost," a young woman exclaimed, "isn't it a lovely sunset?" "Sorry," Frost replied. "I never discuss business after dinner."

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12-16-2010 at 09:27:55 AM

Londo
Posts: 173

RE: Quote Your Favorite Poets Here.

The ten 2-letter words to live by:

IF IT IS TO BE, IT IS UP TO ME. - Unknown

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12-16-2010 at 10:03:52 AM

HarverTomsson
Posts: 28

RE: Quote Your Favorite Poets Here.

Please forgive the length of this quote. I like the final stanza, but the rest just sets it up.

THE RESURRECTION HOPE

A number of years ago Lord Lindsey, in his travels through the Near East, discovered a mummy whose inscription proved it to be some two thousand years old. Upon carefully unwrapping it, he found buried in the hand of this mummified man a bulb of vegetable life.

Wondering just how long vegetable life could last, sealed as this was, he took it carefully out and planted it in rich, sunny soil. To his surprise, within a short time the bulb grew and a beautiful flower appeared. Lord Lindsey’s remarkable find came to the attention of Mrs. S. H. Bradford, who wrote these beautiful lines:

“Two thousand years ago a flower
Bloomed lightly in a far-off land;
Two thousand years ago its root
Was placed within a dead man’s hand.

Before the Savior came to earth
That man had lived and loved and died,
And ever in that far-off time
The flower had spread its perfume wide.

Suns rose and set- years came and went;
The dead hand kept its treasure well;
Nations were born and turned to dust,
While life was hidden in that shell.

The shriveled hand is robbed at last,
The root is buried in the earth,
When lo! The life long hidden there,
Into a glorious flower burst forth.

Just such a plant as that which grew
From such a root when buried low,
Just such a bower in Egypt bloomed
And died two thousand years ago.

Then will not He from ‘neath the sod
Cause something glorious to arise?
Aye- though it sleeps through countless years,
Yet from that buried dust shall rise.

Just such a face as greets you now,
Just such a form as here we bear,
Only more glorious, will arise
To meet the Savior in the air.

Then will I lay me down in peace
When called to leave this vale of tears;
For in my flesh shall I see God
E’en though I sleep two thousand years.”

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12-23-2010 at 03:31:50 PM

cousinsoren
Posts: 2031

RE: Quote Your Favorite Poets Here.

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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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Hay, this is a great idea. I shall surely "plug in" a line or two now and again,

I quote these lines from Shakespeare, as a tribute to Ivan Carvajal a.k.a Grto"
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.."............and all the elements
So mix'f in him, that Nature might stand up
And say to all he world,"This was a man !"

(Read from the headstone of the father of my brother-in-law, in an abandoned churchyard, St.Mary Jamaica,. June 17, 1975)

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12-23-2010 at 03:31:50 PM

cousinsoren
Posts: 2031

RE: Quote Your Favorite Poets Here.

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Originally Posted by dahlusion

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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Hay, this is a great idea. I shall surely "plug in" a line or two now and again,

I quote these lines from Shakespeare, as a tribute to Ivan Carvajal a.k.a Grto"
.
.."............and all the elements
So mix'f in him, that Nature might stand up
And say to all he world,"This was a man !"

(Read from the headstone of the father of my brother-in-law, in an abandoned churchyard, St.Mary Jamaica,. June 17, 1975)

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12-30-2010 at 12:40:41 PM

cousinsoren
Posts: 2031

RE: Quote Your Favorite Poets Here.

My most favourite quotes of my favourites are:

To be or not to be: that is the question ;
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them. (Shakespeare's Hamlet)

"(Procrastination is the thief of time," by Edward Young, is nearly saying the same thing in less verses)

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Life;s but a walking shadow,a poor. player
That frets and struts his hour upon the stage, .
And then is herd no more;
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing" (Shakespeare's Macbeth)

(There are people who see life like this. We tend to call them pessimists)

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Do good,and good duppy will follow you. ( Louise Bennett)

This is as good as "Cast your bread upon the waters. or St.Paul's

"Faith ,hope dharity, these three .
But the greatest of these is charity, ( 1Corinthians 13: 11)

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He has shown you, O Man,what is good.
And what does the Lord require of you,
But to do justly,and to love mercy
And to walk humbly with your God? ( Prophet Micah)

Micah has simplified religion in this sincere and explicit statement. But of course, we cannot dispense with organized religion. Organized religion is a factor ot the political structure of societies from the beginning of human conscienciousness best known as desires and fears, and probably before. On the other hand we ;love rituals, signs and symbols, and speculations and conflicts, polemic diatribe and debate, ...In addition, all forms of organmized ,religion is bid business. ................LOL.

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Well of course , some peoples lives are like this......................LOL
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You nebba see smoke widdout fire,
An' every hoe ha' stick a bush,"

(From a folk poem on love and courtship, origin unknown)