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 reading

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 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 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

Jun 17

“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

Jun 12

“And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.” John Donne, 72. Death be not proud.

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