the vibe shift from line one to line two is just one of the most pleasant things ive encountered in language
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My very, very favorite is "'Will you walk into my parlor?' said the Spider to the Fly." "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" is excellent, but only in the context of the rest of the sonnet. "Nuns fret not at their Convent's narrow room" is packed with wisdom, though the 1/
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poem uses supernal wisdom to make a mundane point. If you'll indulge me a tangent, one of the most mysterious lines I've ever read is "old, unhappy, far-off things." It's not an opening, but I'm still puzzling over it years later. /fin
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46563/to-the-desert … this one’s been my favorite after a few years “I came to you one rainless August night. You taught me how to live without the rain.”
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