Writer's Block: Taxmen and Poetry

  • Apr. 15th, 2009 at 9:30 PM
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It's Tax Day in the U.S., a day when the mind might be too occupied with deductions and long lines at the post office to think about poetry. But let's try: what's your favorite line of poetry? Song lyrics count.


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"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man." -William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Heaven gives its glimpses only to those
Not in position to look too close." -Robert Frost, "A Passing Glimpse"

"I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." -WB Yeats, "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"

"For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea" -ee cummings, "maggie&milly&molly&may"

"This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go." -Theodore Roethke, "The Waking"