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Best opening line in a poem? |
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"you want to know why I hate you, well I'll try and explain..." well, it's a song... |
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"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you..." -Kipling |
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, |
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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. Coleridge |
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"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood..." Robert Frost, baby! |
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"There once was a man from Nantucket.." |
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"There once was a girl from Nantucket" |
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Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table; |
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary |
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Listen my children and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere . . . |
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I would rather be ashes than dust! |
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I'm no beatnik commie, but I always thought "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked," was a pretty good opener. |
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"The time you won your town the race We chaired you through the market-place; Man and boy stood cheering by, And home we brought you shoulder-high." |
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"April is the cruelest month." -T.S. Eliot "Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare." -Edna St. Vincent Millay "What happens to a dream deferred?" -Langston Hughes "Do not go gentle into that good night." -Dylan Thomas And since others are using whole stanzas: "Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul." -William Ernest Henley |
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As a poet, creative writing professor and track coach, I love this post! How about this one frome Frank O'Hara: "I live above a dyke bar and I'm happy." Or this one from Dean Young, which pretty much sums up my worldview: "How goofy and horrible is life...." |
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yes, that and the following are my favorites "gather ye rosebuds while ye may..." |
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Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment Would you capture it or just let it slip? Eminem |
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Here I sit, broken-hearted |
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Wanted, wanted: Dolores Haze. |
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