Lines from Poems

"That you are here—that life exists, and identity; That the powerful play goes on, and you will..."

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 18:20:50 -0400

“That you are here—that life exists, and identity;
That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse.”

- O Me! O Life!, Walt Whitman

"Man are haunted by the vastness of eternity, and so we ask ourselves: will our actions echo across..."

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:37:19 -0400

“Man are haunted by the vastness of eternity,
and so we ask ourselves:
will our actions echo across the centuries?
Will stranger hear our names, long after we’re gone?
and wonder who were?
how bravely we fought, or how fiercely we loved?”

- from The Iliad, Homer

"I keep those animated moments of you as our catalogue of chances rushed and chances missed."

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 15:55:13 -0400

“I keep those animated moments of you as
our catalogue of chances rushed and chances missed.”

- Somewhere Along the Line, Simon Armitage

"And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where..."

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 16:37:01 -0400

“And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.”

- Dover Beach, Matthew Arnold.

"You have taken the east from me, you have taken the west from me; you have taken what is before me..."

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:26:36 -0400

“You have taken the east from me, you have taken the west from me;
you have taken what is before me and what is behind me;
you have taken the moon, you have taken the sun from me;”

- Donal Og by Lady Augusta Gregory

"In your absence’s depth to hear that you love me Is to hear heaven without ever getting..."

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:45:52 -0400

“In your absence’s depth to hear that you love me
Is to hear heaven without ever getting there.”

- Asunder (Les Séparés), Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (Translated by Thomas D. Le)

"A passion then for watches, bangles, cuffs A likely story: you were lashed by brambles"

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:39:39 -0400

“A passion then for watches, bangles, cuffs
A likely story: you were lashed by brambles”

- I say I say I say, Simon Armitage

"For the time of youth was fled, And grey hairs were on my head."

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:39:03 -0400

“For the time of youth was fled,
And grey hairs were on my head.”

- The Angel, William Blake

"So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing."

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:39:22 -0400

“So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.””

- T.S. Eliot, from East Coker

"Only in books the flat and final happens Only in dreams we meet and interlock,"

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:38:44 -0400

“Only in books the flat and final happens
Only in dreams we meet and interlock,”

- Philip Larkin

"When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children..."

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:58:19 -0400

“When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,
And when he cried the little children died in the streets.”

- Epitaph on a Tyrant, W.H Auden

"There are a kind of thieves that come by day with dogmas and policies and manifestos and steal your..."

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:07:40 -0400

“There are a kind of thieves that come by day
with dogmas and policies and manifestos
and steal your country when you aren’t looking.”

- M.S.A, Sheenagh Pugh

"Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I’ve got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?"

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 06:34:26 -0400

“Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?”

- Still I Rise, Maya Angelou

"And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die."

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 18:10:00 -0400

“And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.”

- John Donne, 72. Death be not proud.

"Religion used to try, That vast moth-eaten musical brocade Created to pretend we never die,"

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 18:04:00 -0400

“Religion used to try,
That vast moth-eaten musical brocade
Created to pretend we never die,”

- Aubade, Philip Larkin

"What mad Nijinsky wrote About DiaghilevIs true of the normal heart; For the error bred in the..."

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 18:00:33 -0400

“What mad Nijinsky wrote
About DiaghilevIs true of the normal heart;
For the error bred in the bone
Of each woman and each man
Craves what it cannot have,
Not universal love
But to be loved alone.”

- From September 1, 1939, W. H. Auden
Norton footnote: “The Russian dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950) wrote that his former lover, the ballet impresario Sergey Diaghilev (1872-1929) ‘does not want universal love, but to be loved alone.’”

"Run with me now where no God can catch us"

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:54:00 -0400

“Run with me now where no God
can catch us”

- Gethseman Nude,

Robert Hamberger