Do you have a favorite poem? (i'm not referring to music lyrics) just poetry

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Do you have a favorite poem?

  1. Yes, I read poetry

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  2. No, I don't read poetry

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  1. Radio

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    William Burroughs Advice for Young People
     
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    "Avoid fuck-ups" :rofl:
     
  3. Academia

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    I am not a native English speaker, but the first time i heard this I thought "Shaite, that sounds majestic"

    Now is the winter of our discontent
    Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
    And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
    In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
    Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;
    Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;
    Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
    Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
    Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;
    And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds
    To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
    He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
    To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
    But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,
    Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;
    I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty
    To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;
    I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,
    Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
    Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time
    Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
    And that so lamely and unfashionable
    That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;
     
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  4. Marquisvonlion

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    Here is one by Beaudelaire ;>)

    You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it--it's the
    only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks
    your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually
    drunk.
    But on what?Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be
    drunk.
    And if sometimes, on the steps of a palace or the green grass of
    a ditch, in the mournful solitude of your room, you wake again,
    drunkenness already diminishing or gone, ask the wind, the wave,
    the star, the bird, the clock, everything that is flying, everything
    that is groaning, everything that is rolling, everything that is
    singing, everything that is speaking. . .ask what time it is and
    wind, wave, star, bird, clock will answer you:"It is time to be
    drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of time, be drunk, be
    continually drunk! On wine, on poetry or on virtue as you wish."

    Charles Baudelaire
     
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    In order to eat, you have to be hungry.
    In order to learn, you have to be ignorant.
    Ignorance is a condition of learning.

    Pain is a condition of health.
    Passion is a condition of thought.
    Death is a condition of life.”

    ― Robert Anton Wilson, Leviathan
     
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    Roses are red, violets are blue, the world was not prepared for the masterpiece: Serum 2
     
  7. VintageDOC

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    The Waking

    By Theodore Roethke

    I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
    I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
    I learn by going where I have to go.

    We think by feeling. What is there to know?
    I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
    I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

    Of those so close beside me, which are you?
    God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
    And learn by going where I have to go.

    Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
    The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
    I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

    Great Nature has another thing to do
    To you and me; so take the lively air,
    And, lovely, learn by going where to go.

    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.
     
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  8. Cardamom

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    THE DONKEY

    When fishes flew and forests walked
    And figs grew upon thorn,
    Some moment when the moon was blood
    Then surely I was born.

    With monstrous head and sickening cry
    And ears like errant wings
    The devil's walking parody
    On all four-footed things

    The tattered outlaw of the earth,
    Of ancient crooked will;
    Starve, scourge, deride me: I am dumb,
    I keep my secret still.

    Fools! For I also had my hour;
    One far fierce and sweet:
    There was a shout about my ears,
    And palms before my feet.

    G.K. Chesterton
     
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  9. Garamondo Furbish

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    Not sure who wrote this, found it on the internets..



    Always look on the bright side of life
    Always look on the bright side of life

    Some things in life are bad, they can really make you mad
    Other things just make you swear and curse
    When you're chewing on life's gristle, don't grumble give a whistle
    This will help things turn out for the best

    Always look on the bright side of life
    Always look on the right side of life

    If life seems jolly rotten, there's something you've forgotten
    And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing
    When you're feeling in the dumps, don't be silly, chumps
    Just purse your lips and whistle, that's the thing

    So, always look on the bright side of death
    Just before you draw your terminal breath

    Life's a counterfeit and when you look at it
    Life's a laugh and death's the joke, it's true
    You see, it's all a show, keep them laughing as you go
    Just remember the last laugh is on you

    Always look on the bright side of life
    And always look on the right side of life
    Always look on the bright side of life
    And always look on the right side of life
     
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    now that I think about it, its probably either Albert Einstein or Lewis Carroll..
     
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    great, but I can barely understand that Scottish brogue though..
     
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    Always Look on the Bright Side of Life Songtext

    Some things in life are bad
    They can really make you mad
    Other things just make you swear and curse
    When you′re chewing on life's gristle
    Don′t grumble, give a whistle
    And this'll help things turn out for the best

    And always look on the bright side of life
    Always look on the light side of life

    If life seems jolly rotten
    There's something you′ve forgotten
    And that′s to laugh and smile and dance and sing
    When you're feeling in the dumps
    Don′t be silly chumps
    Just purse your lips and whistle, that's the thing

    And always look on the bright side of life
    Come on!
    Always look on the right side of life


    For life is quite absurd
    And death′s the final word
    You must always face the curtain with a bow
    Forget about your sin
    Give the audience a grin
    Enjoy it, it's your last chance anyhow

    So, always look on the bright side of death
    A-just before you draw your terminal breath

    Life′s a piece of shit
    When you look at it
    Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it′s true
    You′ll see it's all a show
    Keep ′em laughing as you go
    Just remember that the last laugh is on you

    And always look on the bright side of life
    Always look on the right side of life

    C'mon Brian, cheer up!

    Always look on the bright side of life
    Always look on the bright side of life

    Worse things happen at sea, you know
    Always look on the bright side of life

    I mean, what have you got to lose
    You know, you come from nothing, you′re going back to nothing
    What have you lost? Nothing!

    Always look on the right side of life...


    Nothing will come from nothing, you know what they say?
    Cheer up you old bugger, c'mon give us a grin!
    There you are, see, it′s the end of the film
    Incidentally, this record is available in the foyer
    Some of us have to got live as well, you know
    (?)
    Who do you think pays for all this rubbish
    They're not gonna make their money back, you know
    I told them, I said to them, Bernie, I said they'll never make their money back
     
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