Quote a favourite line from a favourite poet?

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I love poetry by William Butler Yeats. His poem, "The Second Coming" really spoke to me about a sort of fear of the future. The religious symbolism in the poem is woven together with historical events (WWI just ended). My favorite few lines are:

Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
 
But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.

They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.

~~Billy Collins, from Introduction to Poetry
 
Edgar Allan Poe "Romance"
Romance who loves to nod and sing. With drowsy head and folded wing...

William Shakespear "Shall I compare Thee to a Summer's Day?"
..So long as man can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

I also like his sonnet...."My mistress eyes r nothing like the sun" and "The pheonix and the turtle"

I also like Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "How do I love thee?"
 
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