Taken from The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Vol. 1, 3rd Ed.
“Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
“Was there another Troy for her to burn?”
“A terrible beauty is born.”
“The best lack all conviction.”
“Are innocence and beauty born?”
“That is no country for old men.”
“How can we know the dancer from the dance?”
“A single image is not splendor.”
“Good fences make good neighbors.”
“Essence of winter sleep is on the night.”
“Some say the world will end in fire.”
“Whose woods these are I think I know.”
“And miles to go before I sleep.”
“For once, then, something.”
“I am too absent spirited to count.”
“What but design of darkness to appall?”
“For the listener, who listens in the snow, and, nothing himself, beholds nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.”
“Let be be finale of seem.”
“The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.”
“It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place.”
“The pure products of America go crazy.”
“So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.”
“You are caught in the drift.”
“Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky like a patient etherised upon a table.”
“In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.”
“Do I dare disturb the universe?”
“I do not think that they will sing to me.”
“April is the cruellest month.”
“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
“I could not speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither living nor dead, and I knew nothing.”
“Those are pearls that were his eyes. Look!”
“You! hypocrite lecteur!–mon semblable,– mon frère!”
“I think we are in a rats’ alley.”
“Hurry up please its time.”
“Well now that’s done: and I’m glad it’s over.”
“Revive for a moment a broken Coriolanus.”
“Your heart would have responded gaily, when invited, beating obedient to controlling hands.”
“Shall I at least set my lands in order?”
“My soul has grown deep like the rivers.”
“Ain’t you heard the boogie-woogie rumble of a dream deferred?”
“You think it’s a happy beat?”
“I wonder if it’s that simple?”
“What happens to a dream deferred?”
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