What's your favorite line or lyric?

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This is the road to ruin
And we're starting at the end

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"That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die." - H. P. Lovecraft
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At the moment the line that is haunting me is
"Was it for this the clay grew tall?" from one of the war poets, i think Sassoon... or maybe Wilfred Owen.
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I have way too many. My favorite is from poems. One is ," a lung full of bloof is a quicker death than most people would wish for you." And "knowledge doesn't make us bulletproof, bones break the same no matter the intention."
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Kongos
~Traveling On~

So long my flame, my warmth, my fear, my fight
The road's calling again tonight
Dreaming under street lights
Maybe I'll catch a train to Rome
See the world until I can't go on
Then maybe I'll come traveling home
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I've always been partial to a line from a Nine Inch Nails song - "My moral standing is lying down."
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Probably not my favorite, but a beautiful poem by Lord Byron:

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies,
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meets in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which Heaven to gaudy day denies.
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"So stately his form, and so lovely her face,
That never a hall such a galliard did grace;
While her mother did fret, and her father did fume,
And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume;
And the bride-maidens whisper’d, “’twere better by far
To have match’d our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.”

.... Sir Walter Scott - Lochinvar
We fade away, but vivid in our eyes
A world is born again that never dies.
- My Home by Clive James
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I have many favorite lines or lyrics, right now this one is my favorite:“Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no longer trying. It is the courage to continue that counts.”

-- 05 Mar 2015, 10:44 --

"Sometimes I feel
Like I don't have a partner
Sometimes I feel
Like my only friend
Is the city I live in
The city of angels
Lonely as I am
Together we cry"

Anyone remember this?
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Black kettles and black pots seem to fight an awful lot,
makes the kitchen the most uncomfortable of rooms
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My favorite line is from Tracy Bird's "Keeper of the Stars": "It is no accident, me finding you. Someone had a hand in it, Long before we ever knew...." "I tip my hat, to the Keeper of the Stars....." It might be a toss-up between that and Roberta Flack's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face...."

-- Tue Mar 10, 2015 4:27 pm --

Some of my favorite lines from a poem I wrote, is from "Ode to A New Venture". This is an exerpt:

"Like a moth emerging from darkness,
Today you spread your wings.
Escape from your confining cocoon,
Fly on to greater things.

The heights you reach are only bound,
By the power of your flight.
The only thing to limit you,
Is the earthly creatures fright."

.....(From Sense and Sentiment, Poetry)
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Castles in the sky sit stranded vandalised
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I have died every day waiting for you
Darling, don't be afraid I have loved you
For a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more
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"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." T.S. Eliot
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My favorite line comes from the book Divergent by Veronica Roth. Its "Fear doesn't shut you down, it wakes you up."
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