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[peccare.livejournal.com]

hey i dont know if this is allowed so feel free to delete it, mods. but i found an interesting blog post over at the guardian, and was wondering what you guys thought.

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/07/whats_a_perfect_line_in_poetry.html

whats your idea of a perfect line in poetry? i quite like the 'life like a dome...', but i think the line from lady lazarus that talks about the maggots like sticky pearls is also pretty perfect.

it's so difficult to pick a line that keeps its perfection outside the context of a poem, because often it's perfect due to the leadup, or what comes after it, even.

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smiths line--

[madmouth.livejournal.com]

'last night I dreamt that somebody loved me'


I find songs are more quotable succinctly; all my favourite poetic clips are 2-3 lines.