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Hey, has anyone got any favorite sayings or poems ?
I’ll put some lines from my two favorite poems.
Walt Whitman
O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done.
The ship has every weather, the price we have. The sought is won.
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While eyes following the steady keel, the vessel were grim and daring.
But O heart! Heart! Heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
You Lazarushian-leather Gunga Din!
Though I've belted you and flayed you,
By the livin' Gawd that made you,
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!
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By (user no longer on site) 34 weeks ago
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I like that one by Walt Wiitman, first heard it in Dead Poets society (as read by Robin Williams.)
my three other favourite are
Dylan Thomas's 'Do not go gentle', and I am from near his 'lovely, ugly town'
and for very personal reasons 'Invictus' by William Earnest Henley
and then Shakespears Sonnett 116 |
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"I like that one by Walt Wiitman, first heard it in Dead Poets society (as read by Robin Williams.)
my three other favourite are
Dylan Thomas's 'Do not go gentle', and I am from near his 'lovely, ugly town'
and for very personal reasons 'Invictus' by William Earnest Henley
and then Shakespears Sonnett 116"
that’s where I heard it one of my favourite films |
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By (user no longer on site) 34 weeks ago
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also love this.
“Fear no more the heat o’ the sun”
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
(from Cymbeline)
Fear no more the heat o’ the sun,
Nor the furious winter’s rages;
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone, and ta’en thy wages:
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.
Fear no more the frown o’ the great;
Thou art past the tyrant’s stroke;
Care no more to clothe and eat;
To thee the reed is as the oak:
The scepter, learning, physic, must
All follow this, and come to dust.
Fear no more the lightning flash,
Nor the all-dreaded thunder stone;
Fear not slander, censure rash;
Thou hast finished joy and moan:
All lovers young, all lovers must
Consign to thee, and come to dust.
No exorciser harm thee!
Nor no witchcraft charm thee!
Ghost unlaid forbear thee!
Nothing ill come near thee!
Quiet consummation have;
And renownèd be thy grave! |
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By (user no longer on site) 34 weeks ago
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"^^ that's lovely
Reminds a little of the bit from King John that starts
'Grief fills the room up of my absent child.'"
It is mellifluous* isn't it. I must admit in only came across it after watching "All is true" (Kenneth Branagh, Judy Dench, Ian McKellen), If you have not seen it I think you will like it.
I will read the lines you refer to. Thank you.
*mel = honey (in Welsh) |
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"^^ that's lovely
Reminds a little of the bit from King John that starts
'Grief fills the room up of my absent child.'
It is mellifluous* isn't it. I must admit in only came across it after watching "All is true" (Kenneth Branagh, Judy Dench, Ian McKellen), If you have not seen it I think you will like it.
I will read the lines you refer to. Thank you.
*mel = honey (in Welsh)"
Thank you I will find it on YouTube later
The original of words is fascinating to me but I'm no scholar  .
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"^^ that's lovely
Reminds a little of the bit from King John that starts
'Grief fills the room up of my absent child.'
It is mellifluous* isn't it. I must admit in only came across it after watching "All is true" (Kenneth Branagh, Judy Dench, Ian McKellen), If you have not seen it I think you will like it.
I will read the lines you refer to. Thank you.
*mel = honey (in Welsh)
Thank you I will find it on YouTube later
The original of words is fascinating to me but I'm no scholar .
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*Origin  |
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"Here I sit broken hearted
Paid 20p and only farted
Heart breaking yet succinct
It's a childhood evergreen
But we paid a penny in the original.
Bloody inflation"
One of my favourites was
I chased a bug around a tree
I'll have his blood he knows I will.
Oh how we giggled to be getting away with saying bugger and bloody |
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Nice thread op. I don't know alot of poetry so it's nice to read and learn a bit...
This one for some reason stirs emotions.. Rather bleak and troubled..by John Clare.
I am—yet what I am none cares or knows;
My friends forsake me like a memory lost:
I am the self-consumer of my woes—
They rise and vanish in oblivious host,
Like shadows in love’s frenzied stifled throes
And yet I am, and live—like vapours tossed
Into the nothingness of scorn and noise,
Into the living sea of waking dreams,
Where there is neither sense of life or joys,
But the vast shipwreck of my life’s esteems;
Even the dearest that I loved the best
Are strange—nay, rather, stranger than the rest.
I long for scenes where man hath never trod
A place where woman never smiled or wept
There to abide with my Creator, God,
And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept,
Untroubling and untroubled where I lie
The grass below—above the vaulted sky |
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And then the no man is an island...
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of they friends`s or of thine own were. Any man`s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. |
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By (user no longer on site) 34 weeks ago
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"^^ that's lovely
Reminds a little of the bit from King John that starts
'Grief fills the room up of my absent child.'
It is mellifluous* isn't it. I must admit in only came across it after watching "All is true" (Kenneth Branagh, Judy Dench, Ian McKellen), If you have not seen it I think you will like it.
I will read the lines you refer to. Thank you.
*mel = honey (in Welsh)
Thank you I will find it on YouTube later
The original of words is fascinating to me but I'm no scholar .
*Origin "
I'm no scholar also. I just love reading, poetry and the English language. (My beautiful, dear lady English teacher lit a flame some 35 years ago). She made an old, damp, old prefabricated classroom on a wet, wintry Tuesday Morning the happiest, safest most beautiful ever place to be. I never wanted her lessons to end. |
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"^^ that's lovely
Reminds a little of the bit from King John that starts
'Grief fills the room up of my absent child.'
It is mellifluous* isn't it. I must admit in only came across it after watching "All is true" (Kenneth Branagh, Judy Dench, Ian McKellen), If you have not seen it I think you will like it.
I will read the lines you refer to. Thank you.
*mel = honey (in Welsh)
Thank you I will find it on YouTube later
The original of words is fascinating to me but I'm no scholar .
*Origin
I'm no scholar also. I just love reading, poetry and the English language. (My beautiful, dear lady English teacher lit a flame some 35 years ago). She made an old, damp, old prefabricated classroom on a wet, wintry Tuesday Morning the happiest, safest most beautiful ever place to be. I never wanted her lessons to end."
I remember one of my teachers reading Paradise Lost to us in the accent of the time (or what she assumed it was) but none of them were inspirational I'm afraid. |
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My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer;
Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,
My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.
Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North,
The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth ;
Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,
The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.
Farewell to the mountains, high-cover'd with snow,
Farewell to the straths and green vallies below;
Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods,
Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods.
My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer;
Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,
My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go. |
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One of my favourite Wendy Cooper's
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Two Cures For Love
1. Don't see him. Don't phone or write a letter
2. The easy way: get to know him better.
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In the interests of fairness him could well be replaced with her.  |
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"No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thine own
Or of thine friend's were.
Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee." John Donne
A bit cliche perhaps? But, I love that poem.
I also love Edgar Allen Poe's 'Eleanor' and 'The Raven' |
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"You see, there are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity... Indeed, that's what we provide in our own modest, humble, insignificant — oh, f**k it." |
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"Here I sit, broken hearted. I'm late for the bus, and I've only farted.
Toilet wall, circa 1988  "
That reminds me
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Toilet wall, Brighton station circa 1974
'my mother made me a homosexual '
' if I gave her the wool, would she make me one too?' |
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"Here I sit, broken hearted. I'm late for the bus, and I've only farted.
Toilet wall, circa 1988
That reminds me
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Toilet wall, Brighton station circa 1974
'my mother made me a homosexual '
' if I gave her the wool, would she make me one too?'"
Our canteen wall was full of stuff like that.......must be an inspirational setting  |
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As you mentioned Whitman;
' Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)'
(Song of Myself, 51)
Also;
'Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.'
Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho!
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Favourite poems in no particular order
Etiquette W S Gilbert
Sea Fever John Masefield
Ozymandias Percy Shelley
If Rudyard Kipling
I wandered lonely as a cloud William Wordsworth
Stork in Jerez Laurie Lee
Not very imaginative but I like em |
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"In my loneliness, and perhaps because of it, I've learned not to judge people, to take people as I find them, not as others find them. And most of all, to give complete and unquestioning faith to the people I love." |
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By *nnCeeWoman 34 weeks ago
East of Eden, West of Hell |
It's a bit of a daft one, but I've known it for years:
There is a star
Shining afar
Beckoning you, my friend
Life is a climb
Most of the time
But you'll get there, in the end
Whenever you fall
And falls will come
Whatever the trouble or pain
Pick yourself up
Dust yourself off
And start all over again. |
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By *avinaTVTV/TS 34 weeks ago
Transsexual Transylvania |
Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan’s Turret in a Noose of Light.
Omar Khayyam |
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