Silver and Steel

I'll assume thou knoweth my mother. I am happy to correct thee on thy assumptions of me because of that.

[mavros-goodfellow]

“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”

[brittsmemes]

SEND ME ‘ SPOTIFY WRAPPED ‘ AND I WILL SHUFFLE MY SPOTIFY AND MAKE YOU A STARTER BASED ON WHICH SONG IS CHOSEN !

[lord-puck-of-the-fae]

Send me a number 1 - 100 and I’ll pick a line from that song in my Spotify year-end playlist

[mavros-goodfellow]

LAYER  001 : THE  OUTSIDE.

NAME -  Lord Mavros Epiphanes Theodoros Goodfellow

EYE COLOR -  Solid black

HAIR STYLE / COLOR - Black and straight, worn long (at least to his waist)

HEIGHT - 6′2″

CLOTHING  STYLE - High elvish fashion when amongst other fantasy characters, silk suits when glamoures

BEST  PHYSICAL  FEATURE -  height

LAYER  002 : THE  INSIDE.

FEARS - losing himself to his magic, dying knowing his mother will be alone

GUILTY  PLEASURE - tiny pastries in pastel colors

BIGGEST  PET  PEEVE -  other people

AMBITIONS  FOR  THE  FUTURE - A throne

LAYER  003 : THOUGHTS.

FIRST  THOUGHTS  WAKING  UP - murder (not a morning person)

THINKS  ABOUT  MOST -  whatever book he is engrossed in at the moment

THINKS  ABOUT  BEFORE  BED - if it’s going to be worth it

WHAT  THEY  THINK  THEIR  BEST  QUALITY  IS - His cunning

LAYER  004 : WHAT’S  BETTER ?

SINGLE  OR  GROUP  DATES - Single

TO  BE  LOVED  OR  RESPECTED - Respected

BEAUTY  OR  BRAINS - Beauty

DOGS  OR  CATS - Cats (preferably black)

LAYER  005 : DO  THEY…

LIE - Constantly

BELIEVE  IN  THEMSELVES -  Most of the time

BELIEVE  IN  LOVE - it exists, but can be persuaded

WANT  SOMEONE - rarely

LAYER  006 : HAVE  THEY  EVER…

BEEN  ON  STAGE - No

DONE  DRUGS -  No

GOTTEN  DRUNK - Yes

CHANGED  WHO  THEY  WERE  TO  FIT  IN - Constantly

LAYER  007 : FAVORITES.

FAVORITE COLOR - Silver

FAVORITE  ANIMAL - Ravens

FAVORITE  MOVIE -  The Third Man

FAVORITE  GAME -  Chess

LAYER  008 : SLEEP.

HEAVY  OR  LIGHT  SLEEPER - Light

WHAT  SIDE  OF  THE  BED  DO  THEY  SLEEP  ON - Left side

WHAT  DO  THEY  WEAR  TO  BED - Either a nightshirt or pajamas, always silk

WEIRD  THINGS  THEY  DO  IN  THEIR  SLEEP - manifest the dark shadows of his magic, sometimes talks in Latin

LAYER  009 : LOVE.

BIG  DECLARATIONS  OR  SMALL - Big, easier to control

OPEN  OR  CLOSED  OFF - Closed off, but pretends to be open

LOVE  AT  FIRST  SIGHT  OR  SLOW  BURN -  Quick burn (not at first sight, but quickly when it happens)

ONE  TRUE  LOVE  OR  A  STRING - A string until he finally catches feelings for someone

LAYER  010 : FINISH  THE  SENTENCE.

I  LOVE - less than I show

I  FEEL - more than anyone thinks

I  HIDE - everything

I  MISS - not understanding what I am

I  WISH - they didn’t have to live

Tagged by: @goodliest

Tagging; Anyone who wants it :)

[lord-puck-of-the-fae]

M*A*S*H Sentence Starters

“There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them - little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.”

“Due to circumstances beyond our control, lunch will be served today.”

“My own father didn’t have me until he was 63, and the first time we played peek-a-boo together he had a stroke.”

“That’s not my department, sir - intelligence is something I try to avoid.”

“Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of happy hour.”

“How should I know? I dropped out of school to become a doctor.”

“Did anyone ever tell you, you have the voice of a songbird slowly drowning in tar?”

“You’d be surprised what a priest can get away with.”

“I discussed you with everyone I know and we all find you disgusting.”

“I’ve never met a nurse that didn’t register.”

“A device is yet to be invented that will measure my indifference to this remark.”

“Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.”

“Well, I guess that’s a bear we all gotta cross.”

“Nobody can get the truth out of me because even I don’t know what it is. I keep myself in a constant state of utter confusion.”

“When I got thrown into this war I had a clear understanding with the Pentagon: no guns. I’ll carry your books, I’ll carry a torch, I’ll carry a tune, I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!”

“I’ve eaten a river of liver and an ocean of fish! I’ve eaten so much fish, I’m ready to grow gills! I’ve eaten so much liver, I can only make love if I’m smothered in bacon and onions.”

“Never insult seven men when all you have is a six shooter.”

“Insanity is just a state of mind.”

“Well, official channels could take forever. I remember when I applied for permission to get married. By the time the papers came through, my son was divorced.”

“I haven’t volunteered since the day my draft board tied me up and sent me here.”

“Look, all I know is what they taught me at command school. There are certain rules about a war and rule number one is young men die. And rule number two is doctors can’t change rule number one.”

“Do you know what a hero is? Ninety-mine times out of a hundred, he’s somebody who’s tired enough and cold enough and hungry enough not to give a damn. I don’t give a damn.”

“You can give me 100 good reasons to leave, and I can’t give you one good reason to stay. Stay anyway.”

“One of these sandwiches just moved.”

“Do you realize that you’re singing two entirely different operas and they’re both out of tune?”

“Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice: pull down your pants and slide on the ice.”

[arsenicinshell]

Custom Hairpin from this shop

[lord-puck-of-the-fae]

Potpourri Sentence Starters

Because “Potpourri” sounds better than “random quotes I like”

“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.”

“If you wish to make and apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”

“There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.”

“We have done the impossible, and that makes us mighty.”

“Things need not have happened to be true.”

“Ask yourselves, all of you, what power would Hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?”

“Never play an ace if a two will do.”

“Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.”

“You have more power than you realize.”

“Language is the house that Man inhabits.”

“We are men of action. Lies do not become us.”

“I could be the walrus. I’d still have to bum rides off people.”

“I’m afraid the pompous word for that is ‘art’.”

“I started at the top and have been working my way down ever since.”

“You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”

“Wednesday has been cancelled due to a scheduling error.”

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”

“If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never have got beyond the first picosecond.”

“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”

“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”

“Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make bored.”

“If we wait until we are ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”

“It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.”

“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”

“So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”

“The world is what it is. But the world is also what you bring to it, and who you share it with.”

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

“The man who is right is a majority.”

“Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.”

“It is a fool’s prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.”

“It’s not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren’t doing it.”

“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”

[lord-puck-of-the-fae]

Poetry Sentence Starters

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.”

“Things fall apart.”

“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.”

“I, too, dislike it.”

“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!”

“Fear death by water.”

“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.”

“What should I resent?”

“What have we given?”

“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?”

“I’ve known rivers.”

“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?”

“Or does it explode?”

[lord-puck-of-the-fae]

More Poetry Sentence Starters

(Find the first one here)

Taken from The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Vol. 1, 3rd Ed.

“Do I contradict myself?”

“I am large, I contain multitudes.”

“What is it then between us?”

“I shall but drink the more!”

“I could not see to see—”

“Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.”

“I hear it in the deep heart’s core.”

“I have spread my dreams under your feet.”

“I have met them at close of day.”

“Was it needless death after all?”

“I am accustomed to their lack of breath.”

“And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”

“But is there any comfort to be found?”

“What more is there to say?”

“That is no country for old men.”

“The difference is spreading.”

“You did not have an answer.”

“I am useless.”

“You don’t know how to ask it.”

“I doubted if I should ever come back.”

“One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.”

“I placed a jar in Tennessee.”

“Whose spirit is this?”

“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.”

“All this! and it seemed gentle and good to us.”

“Recreant!”

“I am in nature none of these.”

“Why does it trouble me?”

“She knows.”

“You, you don’t know me.”

“I saw you vanish into air.”

“How can we this, our own quietus, make?”

“It is the end, it is oblivion.”

“I am old enough now to make friends.”

“I have seen what I have seen.”

“I have tried to write Paradise.”

“Let the Gods forgive what I have made.”

“Let those I love try to forgive what I have made.”

“What saved us?”

“The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.”

“The calm, cool face of the river asked for a kiss.”

“In the meantime, if you demand on the one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, you are interested in poetry.”

[soothsaying]

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Send me some numbers and a character name and I will tell you:

What does their bedroom look like?

Do they have any daily rituals?

Do they exercise, and if so, what do they do? How often?

What would they do if they needed to make dinner but the kitchen was busy?

Cleanliness habits (personal, workspace, etc.)

Eating habits and sample daily menu

Favorite way to waste time and feelings surrounding wasting time

Favorite indulgence and feelings surrounding indulging

Makeup?

Neuroses? Do they recognize them as such?

Intellectual pursuits?

Favorite book genre?

Sexual Orientation? And, regardless of own orientation, thoughts on sexual orientation in general?

Physical abnormalities? (Both visible and not, including injuries/disabilities, long-term illnesses, food-intolerances, etc.)

Biggest and smallest short term goal?

Biggest and smallest long term goal?

Preferred mode of dress and rituals surrounding dress

Favorite beverage?

What do they think about before falling asleep at night?

Childhood illnesses? Any interesting stories behind them?

Turn-ons? Turn-offs?

Given a blank piece of paper, a pencil, and nothing to do, what would happen?

How organized are they? How does this organization/disorganization manifest in their everyday life?

Is there one subject of study that they excel at? Or do they even care about intellectual pursuits at all?

How do they see themselves 5 years from today?

Do they have any plans for the future? Any contingency plans if things don’t workout?

What is their biggest regret?

Who do they see as their best friend? Their worst enemy?

Reaction to sudden extrapersonal disaster (eg The house is on fire! What do they do?)

Reaction to sudden intrapersonal disaster (eg close family member suddenly dies)

Most prized possession?

Thoughts on material possessions in general?

Concept of home and family?

Thoughts on privacy? (Are they a private person, or are they prone to ‘TMI’?)

What activities do they enjoy, but consider to be a waste of time?

What makes them feel guilty?

Are they more analytical or more emotional in their decision-making?

Would they consider themselves a Type A or Type B personality?

What recharges them when they’re feeling drained?

Would you say that they have a superiority-complex? Inferiority-complex? Neither?

How misanthropic are they?

Hobbies?

How far did they get in formal education? What are their views on formal education vs self-education?

Religion?

Superstitions or views on the occult?

Do they express their thoughts through words or deeds?

If they were to fall in love, who (or what) is their ideal?

How do they express love?

If this person were to get into a fist fight, what is their fighting style like?

Is this person afraid of dying? Why or why not?

[lord-puck-of-the-fae]

M*A*S*H Sentence Starters

“There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them - little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.”

“Due to circumstances beyond our control, lunch will be served today.”

“My own father didn’t have me until he was 63, and the first time we played peek-a-boo together he had a stroke.”

“That’s not my department, sir - intelligence is something I try to avoid.”

“Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of happy hour.”

“How should I know? I dropped out of school to become a doctor.”

“Did anyone ever tell you, you have the voice of a songbird slowly drowning in tar?”

“You’d be surprised what a priest can get away with.”

“I discussed you with everyone I know and we all find you disgusting.”

“I’ve never met a nurse that didn’t register.”

“A device is yet to be invented that will measure my indifference to this remark.”

“Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.”

“Well, I guess that’s a bear we all gotta cross.”

“Nobody can get the truth out of me because even I don’t know what it is. I keep myself in a constant state of utter confusion.”

“When I got thrown into this war I had a clear understanding with the Pentagon: no guns. I’ll carry your books, I’ll carry a torch, I’ll carry a tune, I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!”

“I’ve eaten a river of liver and an ocean of fish! I’ve eaten so much fish, I’m ready to grow gills! I’ve eaten so much liver, I can only make love if I’m smothered in bacon and onions.”

“Never insult seven men when all you have is a six shooter.”

“Insanity is just a state of mind.”

“Well, official channels could take forever. I remember when I applied for permission to get married. By the time the papers came through, my son was divorced.”

“I haven’t volunteered since the day my draft board tied me up and sent me here.”

“Look, all I know is what they taught me at command school. There are certain rules about a war and rule number one is young men die. And rule number two is doctors can’t change rule number one.”

“Do you know what a hero is? Ninety-mine times out of a hundred, he’s somebody who’s tired enough and cold enough and hungry enough not to give a damn. I don’t give a damn.”

“You can give me 100 good reasons to leave, and I can’t give you one good reason to stay. Stay anyway.”

“One of these sandwiches just moved.”

“Do you realize that you’re singing two entirely different operas and they’re both out of tune?”

“Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice: pull down your pants and slide on the ice.”

[lord-puck-of-the-fae]

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@mavros-goodfellow​

Tagged by: @goodliest​ Tagging: Anyone who wants it

[lord-puck-of-the-fae]

Potpourri Sentence Starters

Because “Potpourri” sounds better than “random quotes I like”

“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.”

“If you wish to make and apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”

“There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.”

“We have done the impossible, and that makes us mighty.”

“Things need not have happened to be true.”

“Ask yourselves, all of you, what power would Hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?”

“Never play an ace if a two will do.”

“Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.”

“You have more power than you realize.”

“Language is the house that Man inhabits.”

“We are men of action. Lies do not become us.”

“I could be the walrus. I’d still have to bum rides off people.”

“I’m afraid the pompous word for that is ‘art’.”

“I started at the top and have been working my way down ever since.”

“You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”

“Wednesday has been cancelled due to a scheduling error.”

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”

“If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never have got beyond the first picosecond.”

“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”

“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”

“Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make bored.”

“If we wait until we are ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”

“It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.”

“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”

“So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”

“The world is what it is. But the world is also what you bring to it, and who you share it with.”

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

“The man who is right is a majority.”

“Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.”

“It is a fool’s prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.”

“It’s not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren’t doing it.”

“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”

[lord-puck-of-the-fae]

Poetry Sentence Starters

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.”

“Things fall apart.”

“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.”

“I, too, dislike it.”

“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!”

“Fear death by water.”

“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.”

“What should I resent?”

“What have we given?”

“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?”

“I’ve known rivers.”

“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?”

“Or does it explode?”

[lord-puck-of-the-fae]

More Poetry Sentence Starters

(Find the first one here)

Taken from The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Vol. 1, 3rd Ed.

“Do I contradict myself?”

“I am large, I contain multitudes.”

“What is it then between us?”

“I shall but drink the more!”

“I could not see to see—”

“Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.”

“I hear it in the deep heart’s core.”

“I have spread my dreams under your feet.”

“I have met them at close of day.”

“Was it needless death after all?”

“I am accustomed to their lack of breath.”

“And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”

“But is there any comfort to be found?”

“What more is there to say?”

“That is no country for old men.”

“The difference is spreading.”

“You did not have an answer.”

“I am useless.”

“You don’t know how to ask it.”

“I doubted if I should ever come back.”

“One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.”

“I placed a jar in Tennessee.”

“Whose spirit is this?”

“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.”

“All this! and it seemed gentle and good to us.”

“Recreant!”

“I am in nature none of these.”

“Why does it trouble me?”

“She knows.”

“You, you don’t know me.”

“I saw you vanish into air.”

“How can we this, our own quietus, make?”

“It is the end, it is oblivion.”

“I am old enough now to make friends.”

“I have seen what I have seen.”

“I have tried to write Paradise.”

“Let the Gods forgive what I have made.”

“Let those I love try to forgive what I have made.”

“What saved us?”

“The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.”

“The calm, cool face of the river asked for a kiss.”

“In the meantime, if you demand on the one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, you are interested in poetry.”

[lord-puck-of-the-fae]

More Poetry Sentence Starters

(Find the first one here)

Taken from The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Vol. 1, 3rd Ed.

“Do I contradict myself?”

“I am large, I contain multitudes.”

“What is it then between us?”

“I shall but drink the more!”

“I could not see to see—”

“Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.”

“I hear it in the deep heart’s core.”

“I have spread my dreams under your feet.”

“I have met them at close of day.”

“Was it needless death after all?”

“I am accustomed to their lack of breath.”

“And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”

“But is there any comfort to be found?”

“What more is there to say?”

“That is no country for old men.”

“The difference is spreading.”

“You did not have an answer.”

“I am useless.”

“You don’t know how to ask it.”

“I doubted if I should ever come back.”

“One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.”

“I placed a jar in Tennessee.”

“Whose spirit is this?”

“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.”

“All this! and it seemed gentle and good to us.”

“Recreant!”

“I am in nature none of these.”

“Why does it trouble me?”

“She knows.”

“You, you don’t know me.”

“I saw you vanish into air.”

“How can we this, our own quietus, make?”

“It is the end, it is oblivion.”

“I am old enough now to make friends.”

“I have seen what I have seen.”

“I have tried to write Paradise.”

“Let the Gods forgive what I have made.”

“Let those I love try to forgive what I have made.”

“What saved us?”

“The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.”

“The calm, cool face of the river asked for a kiss.”

“In the meantime, if you demand on the one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, you are interested in poetry.”

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Poetry Sentence Starters

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.”

“Things fall apart.”

“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.”

“I, too, dislike it.”

“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!”

“Fear death by water.”

“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.”

“What should I resent?”

“What have we given?”

“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?”

“I’ve known rivers.”

“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?”

“Or does it explode?”