Best lines of Poetry or Literature

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One is in my sig.

Another favourite is by Byron -

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She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright,
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;

And a third one from a translation of Omar Khayyam, can't rightly remember who translation it was;

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Morning when dawn's left hand was in the sky,
I heard a voice within the tavern cry,
Awake my little ones and fill the cup,
Before life's liquor in its cup be dry....

And a fourth one which I nearly forgot...don't even remember who it is by.....read it in a RD book of Wit and Wisdom ages back;

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I praise the Frenchman, his remark was shrewd,
How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!
But grant me still a friend in my retreat
Whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.

Great thread by the way.....lots of potential.