Foo - Whats your favorite poem quote?

Whats you favorite poem quote?
This is mine

Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken

"I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."

"Quoth the raven, 'nevermore'"

I never saw a purple cow,
I never hope to see one,
but I can tell you anyhow,
I'd rather see than be one.

-- Gelett Burgess

Words to live by.

Dave

We real cool. We
Left school. We

Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We

Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We

Jazz June. We
Die soon.


We Real Cool
by Gwendolyn Brooks

And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep

and

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches

Robert Frost

My favorite quote would be " if at first you don't succeed, then chances are skydiving is not the sport for you" :)

Whats you favorite poem quote?
This is mine

Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken

"I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
Stole my favorite line :(


"Quoth the raven, 'nevermore'"

That's a pretty good one

My favorite quote would be " if at first you don't succeed, then chances are skydiving is not the sport for you" :)
POETRY :P

If Noah had been truly wise,
He would have swatted those two flies.

Anon.

If Noah had been truly wise,
He would have swatted those two flies.

Anon.
Haha. Took me a second to get it, but I finally got it

the last stanza of John Masefield's Sea-Fever:

"I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over."

I never saw a purple cow,
I never hope to see one,
but I can tell you anyhow,
I'd rather see than be one.

-- Gelett Burgess

Words to live by.

Dave

You do know her sequel poem, right? The story goes that she was an aspiring poet and not getting much noteriaty when she penned that poem. Because it was so cute, she became "well known" overnight. However, for obvious reasons, that was NOT the poem she wanted to be known for. After a few years, she penned a sequel poem.

Ah, yes, I wrote the Purple Cow
And now I'm sad I wrote it
But I can tell you anyhow
I'll kill you if you quote it

For....the first one that comes to mind would be the last stanza of Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade.

When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honor the charge they made,
Honor the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred.