Favorite line of all time

deadnothingbetter

I want to start a thread that contains everyone's favorite particular line of any particular poem/song.

mine has turned out to be one by Iron and Wine... don't know the title though

So may the sunrise shine where hope once was forgotten
Sons are like birds always flying over the mountain

depopulationINC

"I miss the comfort in being sad"

FinsburyParkCarrots

"I'm so mean I make medicine sick"

Muhammad Ali

pearlmutt

"love is where we all belong"

cat stevens
and
eddie vedder

depopulationINC

"Yeah, I want to travel south
This year
Aaah, Woah, Woah
Won't prevent safe passage here"

depopulationINC

"So this is what it's like to be an adult
If he only knew now what he knew then"

Righteous Jammer

plan and simple's "WISH YOU WERE HERE", Pink Floyd!!!!!!!

faithful227

" i know someday you'll have a beautiful life; i know you'll be a star....
in somebody else's sky, why? why? why can't it be mine? "

ISN

veni....vidi....vici....

I came...I saw....I conquered.....

Julius Caesar

Spook Fish

'As soon as your born they make you feel small, by giving you no time instead of it all'

John Lennon - Working class hero

LeaderOfMen

"Two roads diverged in the woods, and I, I took the one less travelled."

-Robert Frost-

ISN

and that has made all the difference

burtschips

there aint nothin like a friend who can tell ya you're just pissing in the wind.
neil young.

grooveamatic

This comes to mind, from Larkin's "Talking in Bed":

It becomes still more difficult to find
Words at once true and kind,
Or not untrue and not unkind.

ISN

I think you might find that in all my honesty......I am never cruel......words true and not unkind......words true and kind I have spoken......I am an insect on the clock of time.....and I don't expect him to fast-forward or unwind because of my great leisure......which lets me swath through other bugs......and remind them of their lack of humanity.......I jus want honesty......with or without kindness......I'm a cliff......you have to climb me and then jump into the sea......and drown......that's what you get for your efforts......death......honesty is death.......because every1 alive is involved in some kind of lies adn games.......so I jus realised.....that the only truth is in the grave or in my mouth.....I'm tired......and I need bed.....and my bed needs me.....cos there's no other sailors around to fill my berth

grooveamatic

ISN wrote:

I think you might find that in all my honesty......I am never cruel......words true and not unkind......words true and kind I have spoken......I am an insect on the clock of time.....and I don't expect him to fast-forward or unwind because of my great leisure......which lets me swath through other bugs......and remind them of their lack of humanity.......I jus want honesty......with or without kindness......I'm a cliff......you have to climb me and then jump into the sea......and drown......that's what you get for your efforts......death......honesty is death.......because every1 alive is involved in some kind of lies adn games.......so I jus realised.....that the only truth is in the grave or in my mouth.....I'm tired......and I need bed.....and my bed needs me.....cos there's no other sailors around to fill my berth

I often find myself ecstatic within your stream of consiousness.

You may be right, Cath, that true honesty exists only in death. Of that I'm not sure. But I do know this: human beauty does exist in our desire to be honest, and in any valid attempt to live an honest life there is redemption, of some kind.

If in fact you are going to bed....good night, and sleep well.

ISN

as though I could ever be satisfied with those words......but they made me feel good anyway

grooveamatic

ISN wrote:

as though I could ever be satisfied with those words......but they made me feel good anyway

That's because there is truth in them.

ISN

thx honey.......you amaze me sometimes, although I have refrained from expressing it up until now......I'm amazed by you.......and I appreciate your restraint when dealing with my whimsical honesty......I've often not commented on how beautiful I thought your poems were, because I expected a kind of special beauty from you......and I hope you never felt I was slighting you, on the contrary........I was holding you up as our emblem.....and goading you on.......expecting you to provide me with cheap perfection.....which I could ignore.....expecting you to proffer every kind of beauty.....and you did

grooveamatic

ISN wrote:

thx honey.......you amaze me sometimes, although I have refrained from expressing it up until now......I'm amazed by you.......and I appreciate your restraint when dealing with my whimsical honesty......I've often not commented on how beautiful I thought your poems were, because I expected a kind of special beauty from you......and I hope you never felt I was slighting you, on the contrary........I was holding you up as our emblem.....and goading you on.......expecting you to provide me with cheap perfection.....which I could ignore.....expecting you to proffer every kind of beauty.....and you did

I hope you'll understand that this renders me nearly speechless. Except to say this: thank you. And thank you.

Nothingbetter

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