What’s your favorite line of poetry?

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1. Minha terra tem palmeiras onde canta o sabiá (My land has palm trees where the mockingbird sings)

2. Something wicked this way comes

3. I stare at the arch of the doorway admiring the way it bends just so. Adjusting but not breaking and I know this is home. – Elizabeth Anna

4. ABCDEFG,

   Gummy bears are chasing me,

   One is red, One is Blue,

   One is trying to steal my shoe,

   Now I’m running for my life,

   BECAUSE THE RED ONE HAS A KNIFE!!!!

5. Plant hope in your hearts wounds

6. ‘Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away

7. i love the refrain in the ballad of reading gaol; ‘our souls therefore, which are one, though i must go, endure not yet, a breach, but an expansion, like gold to airy thinness beat’ (donne); almost any part of swinburne’s ‘dolores (our lady of pain)’.

   steven’s opening and penultimate + ultimate lines from ‘the snow man’. ‘they also serve, who only stand and wait’ from milton’s ‘on his blindness’.

   gosh, a lot more, but i usually like whole poems or parts of poems more than specific lines, because you need more than a line for context.

   not strictly a poem, because it’s a song, but ‘je t’aime mon amour, comme j’aime la nuit’ from mark lanegan’s ‘the gravedigger’s song’ is one of my favorite lines from most anything, but again it really needs the whole song, otherwise it just sounds kind of weird.

8. Do not go gentle into that good night.
   Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

   Or

   Like an eye between two white lids that will not shut.
   Stupid pupil, it has to take everything in.

9. “Silence has always been my loudest scream” -Amanda Lovelace.

   Highly recommend “The Princess Saves Herself In This One” but it’s a hard read if you had an abusive mom

10. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary

11. I would spread the cloths under your feet:
    But I, being poor, have only my dreams;

    I have spread my dreams under your feet;
    Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

12. The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
    Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,
    Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
    For nothing now can ever come to any good by W. H Auden ‘ Funeral Blues’

13. The clouds will cease to fleet; The heart will cease to beat; For all things must die.

14. You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you.

15. It matters not how straight the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul

16. No man is an island entire of itself;
    　every man is a piece of the continent,
    　a part of the main．—–John Donne

17. I have a few.

    Noli me tangere, for Caesar’s I am, and wild for to hold, though I seem tame. – Sir Thomas Wyatt

    I died for beauty but was scarce adjusted in the tomb when one who died for truth was lain in an adjoining room. – Emily Dickinson

18. No one cares what you dreamt about, unless of course you dreamt about them. But don’t let that stop you. And you can make it up as you go.

19. “You fell in love with my flowers but not my roots, so when autumn came you didn’t know what to do.”

20. “The floor seemed wonderfully solid.
    It was comforting to know I had fallen
    And could fall no further.”- Sylvia Plath.

21. 2 million people die of dehydration each year, the glass is not half empty nor full the glass has water In it drink it and stop complaining