Some
of my favorite lines and beyond:
“The world had been sad since Tuesday.” A
Very Old Man with Enormous Wings: A Tale
for Children Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“and I eat men like air” Sylvia Plath
“I
could hear everyone’s heart” What we Talk about When We Talk about Love Raymond
Carver
“They flee from me that one time did me seek” Sir
Thomas Wyatt Also the line "How like you this?
“The grave’s a fine and private place” Andrew
Marvell and then what Diane Ackerman
does with the lines in her poem “A Fine, A Private Place”
i
found them there
rubbing
against the leaves
so
that the nubs of their
wings
were flush under their skin “report from the angel of eden” Lucille Clifton
“Finally the boat veered around a rock that stood at the gateway to the ocean; the shadow of a cliff fell across it; its wake disappeared from the deserted surface, and the painter Wang-Fo and his disciple Ling vanished forever on the jade-blue sea that Wang-Fo had just created.” “How
Wang-Fo was Saved” Marguerite Yourcenar
my heart broke loose on the wind “Poetry”
Neruda
and the child draws another inscrutable house
“Sestina” Elizabeth Bishop
(pretty bold of her, don’t you think, to title
this just Sestina?)"And this... is your opinion of me!" Darcy from Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
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