What Is Your Favorite Line from a Poem?
"Do what you are going to do, and I will tell about it."
~Sharon Olds, from I Go Back to May 1937
Now, what's your favorite line from a poem?
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Ever tried.
Ever failed.
No matter.
Try again.
Fail again.
Fail better.
~Samuel Beckett
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I think there is no end or return.
— from Mary Oliver’s A Pretty Song in Thirst
For now, I can only recall this!
(with up so floating many bells down)"
- e.e. cummings
anyone lived in a pretty how town
Gautani, I don't know that Mary Oliver poem. I'm going to look it up now. Thanks!
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep."
-Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
"come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed."
-- lucille clifton's ["won't you celebrate with me"]
i can never stick with a single favorite on anything that matters, but it says a lot that this was my instinctive first choice!
I married hard"
Olena Kalytiak Davis - "In Defense of Marriage"
Evie, I don't think "favorite" is the right word, because there are so many. But I do love Ms. Lucille's "Come Celebrate with Me".
Catherine, I don't know that poet--I'll have to look her up.
This is a great question to pose because there are so many international writers I don't know.
oh this is me. all of the time.
wrong response for the wrong blog. my favorite quote:
""I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.) "
slyvia plath
"Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air."
-- "Lady Lazarus"
Another of my favorite lines: "I move to keep things whole." It's from Mark Strand's "Keeping Things Whole." That's how I feel most days.
perpetually and forever
a renaissance of wonder"
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, I am Waiting.
Followed closely by:
"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood"
though I sang in my chains like the sea!"
--Dylan Thomas
The Negro Speaks by Langston Hughes