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Post by undeniabledilemma on Feb 5, 2003 20:16:31 GMT -5
I love Wordsworth too! My favorite poem of his is MUTABILITY: From low to high doth dissolution climb, And sink from high to low, along a scale Of awful notes, whose concord shall not fail; A musical but melancholy chime, Which they can hear who meddle not with crime, Nor avarice, nor over-anxious care. Truth fails not; but her outward forms that bear The longest date do melt like frosty rime, That in the morning whithered hill and plain And is no more; drop like the tower sublime Of yesterday, which royalty did wear His crown of weeds, but could not even sustain Some casual shout that broke the silent air, Or the unimaginable touch of Time. BEAUTIFUL!!! mm I love that one too  "Truth fails not; but her outward forms that bear The longest date do melt like frosty rime," I love that part.  |
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Post by orfeo on Feb 5, 2003 21:31:12 GMT -5
As I explained somewhere else, my current avatar quote is a quote from the frontspiece of a novel I never actually read, and I don't where quote originally came from...
...but it definitely stuck with me!
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Post by undeniabledilemma on Feb 6, 2003 16:51:47 GMT -5
As I explained somewhere else, my current avatar quote is a quote from the frontspiece of a novel I never actually read, and I don't where quote originally came from... ...but it definitely stuck with me! lol I had to read it a few times before I understood it. |
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Post by idreaminsilver on Feb 6, 2003 17:56:37 GMT -5
"Two roads diverged by a yellow wood... I
could not travel both...."
I believe that was Frost*
*charlene
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Post by undeniabledilemma on Feb 6, 2003 20:43:55 GMT -5
..and so I took the one less traveled. I used to have a poster which that quote on it, but my brother stuck gum on it  Have any of you every read any poetry by Edna St. Vincent Millay? I read some of her stuff over the summer and recently finished her trillion page biography Savage Beauty, which I like very much. I like a lot of her poetry because it's sort of outspoken, yet if you don't look too hard in between the lines you won't understand the deeper, darker meaning. She reminds me of Tori And Sylvia Plath, too. |
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riotproofer
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"my heart is like the ocean it gets in the way"
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Post by riotproofer on Feb 7, 2003 8:06:18 GMT -5
Oh my god! i absolutely love poetry! i love shakespeare, robert frost, emily dickinson, edna st. vincent millay, and t.s. eliot.
eliot's "the hollow men" is amazing!
"Between the idea
and the reality
Between the motion
and the act
falls the shadow (for Thine is the Kingdom)
Between the conception
and the creation
Between the emotion
and the response
falls the shadow (life is very long)
Between the desire
and the spasm
Between the potency
and the existence
Between the essence
and the decent
falls the shadow (for Thine is the Kingdom)"
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If you're a thought, you will want me to think you...
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Post by Aquanaute on Feb 7, 2003 9:07:46 GMT -5
"La lucidité est la blessure la plus rapprochée du soleil..." -René Char "Lucidity is the injury closest to the sun..." I think I got that right!  xox |
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Post by DaturaFae on Feb 7, 2003 10:26:01 GMT -5
A poem that I love by one of my favourite poets: Alone
From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.
Then- in my childhood, in the dawn
Of a most stormy life- was drawn
From every depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that round me rolled
In its autumn tint of gold,
From the lightning in the sky
As it passed me flying by,
From the thunder and the storm,
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view.
-Edgar Allan Poe [/center][/quote] I love Poe, too. Good choice from his poems! |
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Post by mandy on Feb 7, 2003 10:31:11 GMT -5
I love Poe, too. Good choice from his poems! Yay! I was beginning to think I was the only Poe fan around here. Thanks DaturaFae!  |
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Post by elizabeth on Feb 7, 2003 13:25:20 GMT -5
aww, mandy, i was going to post and say that your Poe poem was really striking and different. i started the thread on a whim, but now feel  because i wish there was something more permanent to do with everyone's poems. i should think of something.i will try |
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Post by undeniabledilemma on Feb 7, 2003 13:28:14 GMT -5
Oh my god! i absolutely love poetry! i love shakespeare, robert frost, emily dickinson, edna st. vincent millay, and t.s. eliot. eliot's "the hollow men" is amazing! "Between the idea and the reality Between the motion and the act falls the shadow (for Thine is the Kingdom) Between the conception and the creation Between the emotion and the response falls the shadow (life is very long) Between the desire and the spasm Between the potency and the existence Between the essence and the decent falls the shadow (for Thine is the Kingdom)" I really like that!! |
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because i wish there was something more permanent to do with everyone's poems. i should think of something.i will try