Best lines of Poetry or Literature

[Sevis]

oh yes, you need to registrate... well if you like poetry or writing than it is a good site to check out. if you'd like i can send you a pm with some other sites.

and youre right about translation, its actually a cruelty... although sometimes i believe translation can add another dimension... but seldom though

Thanks, but I'm already overloaded with things to read, and rarely write anything myself.

I find translation a horrid thing. Tried doing it on the scale of a book once - every paragraph takes a while, every page takes an eternity, and the end result is unreadable. If I'd be paid for it, I could perhaps finish the translation, but never would I willingly read it.

I'm surprised nothing from Tolkien has been posted so far... For instance:

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The world was young, the mountains green,
No stain yet on the Moon was seen,
No words were laid on stream or stone,
When Durin woke and walked alone.