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Favorite Poetry Lines
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What are your favorite lines from any poems you've read? What lines have resonated with you, made you go back to that poem, or made you see your world differently? 

These could also be favorite lines from poems you've written! Lines that you are especially proud of. 

Have you ever had a poem stuck in your head like a song? After reading Amanda Gorman's "The Hill We Climb," I had it stuck in my head for about a week, because it has such a powerful rhythm and word choices.  Right now I have the last line from Natalie Diaz's "They Don't Love You Like I Love You" stuck in my head so I'll start with that one:

Natalie, that doesn't mean / you aren't good

It's a really good poem so I'd recommend looking it up :) but I will now stop ranting and let the thread begin. If it doesn't die, which it might. 

submitted by Lupine, age 15,she/her, Flourish & Blotts
(March 2, 2023 - 1:56 am)

Ooh yes i have lots of favorite poetry lines! The one that comes to mind right now is from "The Song of Sherwood," by Alfred Noyes, which is about Robin Hood; it says Robin Hood has returned and is "Calling as he used to call, faint and far away." Somehow those words - "calling as he used to call" thrilled me the first time I read it the poem.

submitted by Poinsettia, Sherwood, this time
(March 3, 2023 - 4:50 pm)

Literally all of Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost. I wrote it on my wrist. It's very pretty

Okay, so the poems in TOA are great. For example: You've got to be kid--/well, crud, what happened there?/I ran out of syl--/  also: practice makes perfect / ha, ha, ha, I don't think so / Ignore my sobbing

(Inkling says "tfyep" probably meaning "true feelings, yep" likely referring to the last poem)

 

submitted by Rainbow, age [Lost], Wishing on a star
(March 3, 2023 - 5:30 pm)

I love that Robert Frost poem too!

submitted by Topsettia
(March 4, 2023 - 11:38 am)

I like a lot of oldish stuff, mainly because those are the kind of poetry books in my house. I like Robert Frost's poems -- Nothing Gold Can Stay (as Rainbow already mentioned), Fire and Ice, The Road Not Taken, The Objection to Being Stepped On, Dtars, and many others. I also like Edna St Vincent Millay's poetry, especially Spring, City Trees, Travel, and Recuerdo, the latter of which I've had stuck in my head all week. I also like the imagery of Emily Dickinson's The Forgotten Grave, especially the last lines -- "Winds of summer fields / Recollect the way, — / Instinct picking up the key / Dropped by memory." 

submitted by pangolin, age she | they, Outskirts of the Galaxy
(March 5, 2023 - 7:18 pm)

I love Emily Dickinson! I haven't read a whole lot of her poems but I like "Because I could not stop for death" and "Hope is the thing with feathers."

submitted by Lupine
(March 5, 2023 - 10:27 pm)

The Road Not Taken! 

submitted by WiLdSoNg
(March 15, 2023 - 5:44 pm)

I love these lines:

"The saddest noise, the sweetest noise,

the maddest noise that grows

The birds, they make it in the spring

At night's delicious close."

It's from a poem by Christina Rossetti. @pangolin, I tend to like older poetry too! Much better than modern poetry, actually.

submitted by Poinsettia, age immortal, ChicagoILIdahoEngland
(March 5, 2023 - 10:07 pm)

I love Robert Frost. One of my favorite poems of his are "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening." I especially love the last stanza:

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.

Raymond Carver's "What the Doctor Said" is also a really good but very said poem. It delivers a real "punch in the gut" ending:

I jumped up and shook hands with this man who'd just given me 

Something no one else on earth had ever given me

I may have even thanked him habit being so strong 

submitted by Periwinkle, age Pi, Somewhere in the stars
(March 6, 2023 - 7:24 am)

This one my awesome 3rd grade teacher likes:

so much depends / upon/ a red wheel/ barrow / glazed with rain / water / beside the white / chickens 

by William Carlos Williams

Also from 3rd grade I'm Nobody! Who Are You? by Emily Dickinson. It's really good

 

Okay so this isn't a poetry line but it has to do with poetry so... Anyways today my friend gave me for no particular reason I think a poetry journal thingy. Like, the kind with like prompts. It's cool

 

 

 

submitted by Rainbow, age [Lost], Wishing on a star
(March 7, 2023 - 9:31 pm)

Dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before -- Poe

O cold, cold is my heart! It will not, cannot rise -- Emily Brontë

No sword/Of wrath her right arm whirl'd/But one poor poet's scroll, and with his word/She shook the world -- Tennyson

submitted by Artemis
(March 10, 2023 - 3:08 pm)

Wowww that last quote is so cool, I'm going to have to look up that poem. (Coincidentally I'm listening to "Soldier, Poet, King" by the Oh Hellos right now and the lyrics sound very similar. Maybe they were inspired by Tennyson!)

submitted by Lupine
(March 14, 2023 - 9:25 pm)

The average hippopotamus/Is large from top to bottomas

-The Average Hippopotamus by Jack Prelutsky

submitted by Scuttles
(March 14, 2023 - 8:53 am)

My favorite poetry line is the first line of "Jabberwocky" (Lewis Carroll). It goes:

"'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe." 

 

submitted by Sadie K, , age 13, Brooklyn House,
(April 29, 2023 - 5:43 pm)

Oh my gosh, yes, I love this poem! For some reason two thursdays ago (not this past thursday, the one beofre it), I just randomly decided to recite it :)

(Inkling says "egoeu"  maybe this mean "eee, go you" or "eee gooey you")

submitted by Rainbow, age [Lost], Raise A Glass To Freedom!
(May 13, 2023 - 2:46 pm)