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    Brick by Ben Folds

    Shes a Brick and I'm Drowning slowly

    All about a guy that gets a girl pregnant, and then tries to talk her into an abortion... absolutley beautiful song!!!
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    TS Eliot - The Wasteland

    April is the cruellest month
    Breeding lilacs out of the dead land
    Mixing memory and desire
    Stirring dull roots with spring rain
    When you talk to God its called prayer,
    When god talks to you its Catatonic Schizophrenia...
    Fox MULDER.

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    Pablo Neruda

    Love For This Book
    by Pablo Neruda
    Translated by Clark Zlotchew and Dennis Maloney


    In these lonely regions I have been powerful
    in the same way as a cheerful tool
    or like untrammeled grass which lets loose its seed
    or like a dog rolling around in the dew.
    Matilde, time will pass wearing out and burning
    another skin, other fingernails, other eyes, and then
    the algae that lashed our wild rocks,
    the waves that unceasingly construct their own whiteness,
    all will be firm without us,
    all will be ready for the new days,
    which will not know our destiny.

    What do we leave here but the lost cry
    of the seabird, in the sand of winter, in the gusts of wind
    that cut our faces and kept us
    erect in the light of purity,
    as in the heart of an illustrious star? {first half of this poem}

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    Prufrock, TS Eliot
    Stopping by Woods-Robert Frost
    Be Still, My soul, be still-AE Houseman
    On his Blindness-Milton
    Dover Beach
    My Heart leaps up with joy-Wordsworth
    I like a lot of poems, but these I enjoy reading over and over and over.

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    My favourites are-
    Ode to Autumn, Keats
    Written in early spring, Worsworth
    In Memorium, Tennyson

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    Definitely "Goblin Market" by Christina Rossetti.

    I like "Leda and the Swan" by Yeats, as well.
    I know that I hanged on a windy tree
    nine long nights
    wounded with a spear, dedicated to Odin,
    myself to myself,
    on that tree of which no man knows
    from where its roots run.

    No bread did they give me nor a drink from a horn
    downward I peered;
    I took up the runes, screaming I took them,
    then I fell back from there.

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    Gotta say 'Days' by Larkin is a favourite of mine:

    ''Days, what are days for?"

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    I must say the crunch, by Charles Bukowski.

    people are not good to each other.
    perhaps if they were
    our deaths would not be so sad.

    My favorite quote of all time.
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    Prufrock by Eliot or The Raven by Poe

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    the raven
    ''It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.''
    - Allen Ginsberg

    "The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois."
    - Gustave Flaubert

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    one of my favourite poems is by Pablo Nerruda Tonight I can write the saddest lines..........

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    One of my favourite poem is "Daffodils" by W.Wordsworth
    I also like Shakespeare's sonnet "Dirge to Love"
    "The Moon" by Shelley

    Nevertheless as a French people , I do not know a lot about English litterature but I am eager to learn

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    The Jabberwocky

    'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
    Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
    All mimsy were the borogoves,
    And the mome raths outgrabe.

    "Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
    The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
    Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
    The frumious Bandersnatch!"

    He took his vorpal sword in hand:
    Long time the manxome foe he sought --
    So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
    And stood awhile in thought

    And as in uffish thought he stood,
    The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
    Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
    And burbled as it came!

    One, two! One, two! and through and through
    The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
    He left it dead, and with its head
    He went galumphing back.

    "And has thou slain the Jabberwock?
    Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
    O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
    He chortled in his joy.

    'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
    Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
    All mimsy were the borogoves,
    And the mome raths outgrabe.

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    i like sylvia plath's "mirror" and also am a fan of Robert Frost.

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    Do we really need to read lines of words to get some feeling about something?! Just look at this :
    old pond
    a frog jumps
    the sound of water
    isn't haiku marvelous?

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