Which are some favourite lines from poems?

2. These are some of my favourite lines from the poem Amanda by Robin Klein. Don’t bite your nails, Amanda! Don’t hunch your shoulders, Amanda! Stop that slouching and sit up straight, Amanda! ( There is a languid ,emrald sea, where the sole inhabitant is me. a mermaid drifting blissfully) Thank you. ~Chitransh. read more

To be some other person for a day." Suggested by Ashton R., via Facebook. 9. From "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot: "For I have known them all already, known them all: Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons; I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." Suggested by Christine S., via Facebook. 10. read more

Short quotations from poetry include less than 3 lines (for prose, 4 lines are used). Example from Edgar Allan Poe is: As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. read more