Lines from Poems

A tumblr for the kind of lines in poems that you underline with a pencil and wish you could scribble on to your brain forever.

Posts tagged poem

Jul 3

“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

Jun 28

“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

Jun 26

“I keep those animated moments of you as
our catalogue of chances rushed and chances missed.” Somewhere Along the Line, Simon Armitage

Jun 25

“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.

Jun 24

“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

Jun 22

“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” I say I say I say, Simon Armitage

Jun 21

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

Jun 20

“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,” Philip Larkin

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