4.42 avg rating — 1,732 ratings

"I do not know which to prefer, / The beauty of inflections / Or the beauty of innuendoes, / The blackbird whistling / Or just after. "

4.14 avg rating — 12,099 ratings

"Do I dare / Disturb the universe? / In a minute there is time / For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. "

4.14 avg rating — 5,087 ratings

"What's freedom for? To know eternity. / I swear she cast a shadow white as stone. / But who would count eternity in days?"

4.36 avg rating — 17,241 ratings

"As once the winged energy of delight / carried you over childhood's dark abysses, / now beyond your own life build the great / arch of unimagined bridges."

4.42 avg rating — 6,651 ratings

"A través de la tierra juntad todos / los silenciosos labios derramados / y desde el fondo habladme toda esta larga noche / como si yo estuviera con vosotros anclado, / contadme todo, cadena a cadena, / eslabón a eslabón, y paso a paso, / afilad los cuchillos que guardasteis, / ponedlos en mi pecho y en mi mano, / como un río de rayos amarillos, / como un río de tigres enterrados, / y dejadme llorar, horas, días, años, / edades ciegas, siglos estelares. "

4.13 avg rating — 119,132 ratings

"Angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the / starry dynamo in the machinery of night,"

4.28 avg rating — 29,363 ratings

"all by all and deep by deep / and more by more they dream their sleep / noone and anyone earth by april / wish by spirit and if by yes."

4.19 avg rating — 18,323 ratings

"Though wise men at their end know dark is right, / Because their words had forked no lightning they / Do not go gentle into that good night."

4.16 avg rating — 12,276 ratings

"And in that vale of light / the city drifts / anchorless upon the ocean. "

4.26 avg rating — 4,529 ratings

"Then we burst forth, we float, / In Time and Space O soul, prepared for them, / Equal, equipt at last, (O joy! O fruit of all!) them to fulfill O soul. "

4.31 avg rating — 13,939 ratings

"I have seen archipelagos in the stars, / Feverish skies where I was free to roam! / Are these bottomless nights your exiled nests, / Swarm of golden birds, O Strength to come?"

4.04 avg rating — 9,490 ratings

"I met a genius on the train / today / about 6 years old, / he sat beside me / and as the train / ran down along the coast / we came to the ocean / and then he looked at me / and said, it's not pretty. // it was the first time I'd / realized / that."

4.29 avg rating — 1,458 ratings

"It is time to be drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of time, be drunk, be continually drunk! On wine, on poetry or on virtue as you wish."

4.25 avg rating — 8,585 ratings

"And some day when you knock and push the door, // Some sane day, not too bright and not too stormy, // I shall be gone, and you may whistle for me. "

4.34 avg rating — 11,918 ratings

"Razors pain you; / Rivers are damp; / Acids stain you; / And drugs cause cramp. / Guns aren't lawful; / Nooses give; / Gas smells awful; / You might as well live. "

4.01 avg rating — 2,650 ratings

"Hog Butcher for the World, / Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, / Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; / Stormy, husky, brawling, / City of the Big Shoulders: "

4.20 avg rating — 6,186 ratings

"I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold "

4.20 avg rating — 6,828 ratings

"What he has now to say is a long / wonder the world can bear & be. / Once in a sycamore I was glad / all at the top, and I sang. / Hard on the land wears the strong sea / and empty grows every bed."

4.33 avg rating — 3,890 ratings

"You are light: you will sleep through my spring till it's over. / I am lighter: / in front of strangers I sing. "

4.13 avg rating — 3,055 ratings

"She's very tall, so she keeps / Her head tipped as if listening. / The books are whispering. / I hear nothing, but she does."

4.17 avg rating — 11,363 ratings

"I took my lyre and said: / Come now, my heavenly / tortoise shell: become / a speaking instrument"