What are your absolute favorite lines of poetry? Post them here

What are your absolute favorite lines of poetry? Post them here.

General rule: if they haven't brought you tears or goosebumps it's not good enough.

It's not one line but fuck you I won't do what you tell me:

Ay, in the very temple of Delight
Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran shrine,
Though seen of none save him whose strenuous tongue
Can burst Joy's grape against his palate fine;
His soul shalt taste the sadness of her might,
And be among her cloudy trophies hung.

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But good one, user

"OP is a pure fuckhead dickhead sucking on some dicks fucking on some dicks fuck outta here you dumb idiot bitch" - Rimbaud

Leave it to the reflective age of comfort to demand that a poem elicit histrionic displays of tears and goosebumps in order to be considered great

La nuit sort d'un éclair.

Oimè se quest'è amor com'ei travaglia
Giacomo Leopardi, Il primo amore
(Oh, if this is love, how it makes me suffer
Giacomo Leopardi, First love)

But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,
Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter,
I am no prophet — and here’s no great matter;
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid.

I thought her behind my back,
Yea, her I long had learned to lack,
And I said: ‘I am sure you are standing behind me,
Though how do you get into this old track?’
And there was no sound but the fall of a leaf
As a sad response; and to keep down grief
I would not turn my head to discover
That there was nothing in my belief.

"Woohoo, I'll never have to take a final again! feels good to be free. I just love Hobbes and Nietzche. Well tomorrow I'll be ordering 9 more 10 round clips for my carbine. I'm gonna be so fucking loaded in about a month. the big things we need to figure now is the time bombs for the commons and how we will get them in and leave then there to go off, without any fucking Jews finding them. I wonder if anyone will write a book on me. sure is a ton of symbolism, double meanings, themes, appearance vs reality shit going on here. oh well, it better be fuckin good if it is writtin."
- Eric David Harris