memorable lines from poetry or prose?

"Better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all"

St. Augustine

"One never knows, do one?" Lawrence Sanders in the Archie McNally series.

"What was warm is strangely cold;

Whence dissolved the little breath?

How can this small body hold

So immense a thing as death?"

from "To a Dead Kitten," don't know the poet

"I will arise and go now, for always night and day

I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore"

from "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by Wm. Butler Yeats

"Rhodora! If the sages ask thee why

This charm is wasted on the earth and sky,

Tell the, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,

Then Beauty is its own excuse for being."

from "The Rhodora" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"As a fictional stereotype, the poor white originally entered the national consciousness with a hillbilly clown puppet on one hand and a redneck villian puppet on the other, a cultural foreigner with a limited ability to acheive and massive capacity to destroy." Jim Goad, "The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, White Trash Became America's Scapegoats"

My favorite would have to be a line from the Shakespeare play "King Lear". "Get thee glass eye, and like a scurrvy politician seem to see the things thou dost not!" This rings so very true of politicians today!

"We are the dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders Fields." McCrae, In Flanders Fields

Wow! I'm in awe. I don't really have any

good quotes to share, but thanks

y'all for sharing.

and every time i climb a tree

where have you been

they say to me

but don't they know that i am free

every time i climb a tree?

david mccord

"quote the raven, nevermore!"

Come with me and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove...."

Whose woods these are I think I know

Whose house in the village though

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And miles to go before I sleep

And miles to go before I sleep

And miles to go before I sleep.

Last line I like more.

It like an inspiration