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Wednesday, April 8, 2015

48 Of The Most Beautiful Lines Of Poetry

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”



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2. From "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop:

"It's evident

the art of losing's not too hard to master,

though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster."

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3. From "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman:

"I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,

If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles."

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4. From "Little Red Cap" by Carol Ann Duffy:

"Words, words were truly alive on the tongue, in the head

Warm, beating, frantic, winged; music and blood


But then I was young."

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5. From "Variations on the Word Sleep" by Margaret Atwood:

"I would like to be the air

that inhabits you for a moment

only. I would like to be that unnoticed

and that necessary."

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