Since, I gather, one can cite more than one line, I would choose, off the top my head, this:
... the future is a faded song, a Royal Rose or a lavender spray
Of wistful regret for those who are not yet here to regret,
Pressed between yellow leaves of a book that has never been opened.
Of wistful regret for those who are not yet here to regret,
Pressed between yellow leaves of a book that has never been opened.
It's only half a line, but this one always impressed me:
ReplyDelete"And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain ..."
(Poe, Raven)
I would say for me the most perfect line of poetry is:
ReplyDelete"Beauty is truth, truth beauty" (keats)
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; (Eliot)
ReplyDeleteGood choice, Frank. "Four Quartets" always good for a raid.
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