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Sándor Petőfi's most famous poems and lines

1 The flower falls, life rushes away…
2 Rise up, Magyar, the country calls! / It is now or never!
3 Shall we be slaves or free men? / That is the question, choose!

Takács Balázs ❤ 0 · ▲ 16 · 15 items

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Alfonsina Storni's most famous poems (with their best-remembered lines)

1 Little little man, I loved you for half an hour, / do not ask me for more.
2 You, who had all / the cups in hand, / your lips purple / with fruits and honeys.
3 Little little man, little little man, / set your canary free, it wants to fly.

Ana Núñez ❤ 0 · ▲ 16 · 12 items

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Nichita Stănescu's most beautiful lines

1 Young lioness, love, / you leapt at me. / She had been lying in wait for me, tense, / for a long time.
2 Autumn has come, cover my heart with something, / with the shadow of a tree, or better, with your shadow.
3 Sometimes I fear I will not see you again, / that sharp wings will grow on me up to the clouds.

Raluca Pop ❤ 0 · ▲ 9 · 12 items

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Orhan Veli Kanık's best-loved poems and lines

1 I never knew songs were so beautiful / and words so inadequate / before I fell into this sorrow.
2 I am listening to Istanbul, my eyes closed.
3 If I wept, would you hear my voice / in my lines?

inkandpaper_antalya ❤ 1 · ▲ 41 · 13 items

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Odysseas Elytis's best-known lines (with their collection)

1 With the first drop of rain, summer was killed.
2 Sorrow grows beautiful because we resemble her.
3 The last journey looks like the very first.

cretebassline ❤ 2 · ▲ 37 · 14 items

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César Vallejo's most famous lines

1 There are blows in life, so hard… I don't know!
2 They are few, but they are… They open dark furrows / in the fiercest face and the strongest back.
3 I was born on a day / when God was sick, / gravely.

Camilo González ❤ 7 · ▲ 201 · 10 items

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Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems

1 The Raven
2 The Bells
3 A Dream Within a Dream

vinylhead_grumpy ❤ 5 · ▲ 175 · 15 items

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Carlos Drummond de Andrade's most famous lines

1 In the middle of the road there was a stone / there was a stone in the middle of the road
2 Itabira is just a photograph on the wall. / But how it hurts!
3 World, world, vast world, / if my name were Raimundo / it would be a rhyme, it would not be a solution.

Diogo Nunes ❤ 1 · ▲ 68 · 13 items

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The opening lines of the ten Mu'allaqat, the great pre-Islamic Arabic odes

1 Are these mute traces of a camp Umm Awfa's, / at Hawmanat al-Darraj and al-Mutathallam?
2 Stop, let us weep for the memory of a beloved and a dwelling / at the edge of the sand dunes between al-Dakhul and Hawmal.
3 Khawla has traces of a camp on the stony ground of Thahmad / that shine like the remains of a tattoo on the back of a hand.

matinee_old ❤ 4 · ▲ 144 · 10 items

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Cemal Süreya's most beautiful lines

1 Kiss me, then give birth to me.
2 You are beautiful, my love, / but only up close!
3 On the day freedom comes, / dying is forbidden that day!

inkandpaper_antalya ❤ 1 · ▲ 8 · 11 items

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Yun Dong-ju's most famous lines (with the poem)

1 They say life is hard to live; / that a poem should be written so easily / is a shameful thing.
2 Until the day I die, looking up at the sky, / I hope to have no speck of shame. / Even the wind stirring the leaves / has troubled me.
3 The sky where the seasons pass / is filled with autumn.

김민지 ❤ 0 · ▲ 11 · 14 items

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Mihai Eminescu's best-known lines

1 Living in your narrow circle, / fortune keeps you company, / but in my own world I feel / immortal and cold.
2 Time goes by and time comes on, / all is old and all is new.
3 Everything in the world has passed away; only evil has remained.

Cristina Rusu ❤ 0 · ▲ 41 · 16 items

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Lope de Vega's most famous lines (with the work they come from)

1 To believe that a heaven fits inside a hell, / to give your life and soul to a disillusion: / this is love; whoever has tasted it knows.
2 Sometimes what goes against the rules / pleases the taste for that very reason.
3 You tell me not to write, or not to live? / Make my love stop feeling, / and I will make my pen stop writing.

versionoriginal_errante ❤ 1 · ▲ 68 · 15 items

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Anna Akhmatova's best-known lines (with the poem)

1 If only you knew from what rubbish / poems grow, knowing no shame.
2 "Only children love like that, / and only the first time."
3 If living, then in freedom; / if dying, then at home.

Анастасия ❤ 0 · ▲ 63 · 13 items

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Czesław Miłosz's best-known poems and quotes

1 There will be no other end of the world, / there will be no other end of the world.
2 What is poetry which does not save / nations or people?
3 I said so little. / Days were short.

couchpotato_wroclaw ❤ 0 · ▲ 10 · 16 items

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Nizar Qabbani's most famous lines (with the poem)

1 When he dances with me he whispers / words that are not like other words.
2 If a day goes by and I forget / to say to you: may your morning be sugar…
3 My friends, I mourn to you the old language / and the old books.

matinee_old ❤ 0 · ▲ 5 · 11 items

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Kim Sowol's most famous lines (with the poem)

1 Name shattered to pieces! / Name scattered in the empty air! / Name with no owner when I call it! / Name I will die calling!
2 Mother, sister, let us live by the river: / glittering golden sand in the yard, / the song of the reeds beyond the back gate.
3 Even if I turn to stone standing here, / name I will die calling! / The one I loved! / The one I loved!

Donghyun Han ❤ 0 · ▲ 22 · 12 items

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Cecília Meireles's best-known lines (with the poem)

1 I sing because the instant exists / and my life is complete. / I am neither happy nor sad: / I am a poet.
2 I don't know whether to play or study, / to run out or stay calm.
3 I learned from the springs / to let myself be cut / and always come back whole.

Diogo Nunes ❤ 0 · ▲ 36 · 11 items

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Langston Hughes's most famous lines (with the poem they come from)

1 I, too, sing America. / I am the darker brother.
2 O, let America be America again — / The land that never has been yet — / And yet must be — the land where every man is free.
3 What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun? / Or does it explode?

B. Johnston ❤ 2 · ▲ 93 · 12 items

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Giacomo Leopardi's most famous poems

1 The Infinite
2 To Silvia
3 Saturday in the Village

Gabriele ❤ 0 · ▲ 0 · 15 items

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Vladimir Mayakovsky's best-known lines (with the poem)

1 Listen! / If stars are lit, / it means someone needs it?
2 The street writhes, tongueless: / it has nothing to shout or speak with.
3 In this life / dying / is not hard. / Making life / is much harder.

Анастасия ❤ 0 · ▲ 6 · 16 items

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Mario Benedetti's most famous poems

1 I Love You
2 Don't Save Yourself
3 Let's Make a Deal

Milagros Pereyra Ortiz ❤ 5 · ▲ 179 · 13 items

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The most famous lines of Nguyễn Du's Tale of Kiều

1 Young grass green to the horizon; / on the pear branch, a few white blossoms.
2 Living through a time when seas turn into mulberry fields, / what one sees breaks the heart.
3 In the Ngưng Bích tower her spring is locked away; / distant hills and the nearby moon keep her company.

Bùi Hoàng Minh ❤ 1 · ▲ 17 · 14 items

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The most famous lines of Saint Teresa of Ávila and Saint John of the Cross

1 I live without living in myself, / and I hope for so high a life / that I die because I do not die.
2 Let nothing disturb you, / let nothing frighten you, / all things pass, / God does not change; / patience obtains all things… / God alone suffices.
3 One dark night, / fired with love's urgent longings, / oh, happy chance!, / I went out unseen, / my house being now all stilled.

Luis Fuentes ❤ 4 · ▲ 106 · 15 items