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Poetry. Who is your Favorite Poet?

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  1. heypartner

    heypartner Member

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    still no votes for rimbaud.
    poor rimbaud, he never gets votes.
     
  2. the futants

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    e. e. cummings
     
  3. moestavern19

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    **** Yeah! **** You punctuation!

    Capitalize my nutsack, Tennyson!
     
  4. rimrocker

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    Same here.
     
  5. bigtexxx

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    Rudyard Kipling

    If

    IF you can keep your head when all about you
    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
    If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
    But make allowance for their doubting too;
    If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
    Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
    Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
    And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

    If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
    If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
    If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
    And treat those two impostors just the same;
    If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
    Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
    And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

    If you can make one heap of all your winnings
    And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
    And lose, and start again at your beginnings
    And never breathe a word about your loss;
    If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
    To serve your turn long after they are gone,
    And so hold on when there is nothing in you
    Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

    If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
    ' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
    if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
    If all men count with you, but none too much;
    If you can fill the unforgiving minute
    With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
    Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
    And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
     
  6. Batman Jones

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    David Berman, of the band Silver Jews, has one and it's god awesome.

    All great artists are poets.
     
  7. thegary

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    words are rules. chinese write poetry and they don't even have letters :eek:
    art is where you find it, whether it be poetry, sculpture, theater, or an awe inspiring shudder when you realize that you are really, really alive. art is the space between that which is being experienced and you. art is also a word, therefore a rule, but if there are no rules, there is no civilization. let's face it, we are living, breathing paradoxes.
     
  8. moestavern19

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    Naturally. But you picked the wrong poem.

    This one is more up your alley.

    - Rudyard Kipling
     
  9. Batman Jones

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    I love Rimbaud. I named my first theatre company after a quote from him.

    "In my dreams I call him my infernal bridegroom."
     
  10. PointForward

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    The greatest Arab poet of all time, Nizar Qabbani.. His poem "the Damascene" about my beloved hometown of Damascus, Syria is one of the greatest literary pieces of all time.. As most won't understand the words in arabic, here is an underground Syrian American rapper who loosely translated the poem to English and made a pretty decent song out of it..

    <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/HFhudrZ--rw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

    I encourage you all to search up some translations of his love poems.. He's a true revolutionary.
     
  11. moestavern19

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    Art is art blah blah blah.

    Some poets are musicians. Some musicians are poets.

    Pac and Jim Morrison were not poets.

    Elliott Smith, David Berman, Black Francis are poetic lyricists.
     
  12. Prince

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    Poop wet?
     

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