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What is your favorite poem


by John Keats?

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This living hand, now warm and capable
Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold
And in the icy silence of the tomb,
So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights
That thou wouldst wish thine own heart dry of blood
So in my veins red life might stream again,
And thou be conscience-calmed - see here it is -
I hold it towards you.

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"Favorite" is hard to say, but I am immensely stirred by the following:

But this is human life: the war, the deeds,
The disappointment, the anxiety,
Imagination's struggles, far and nigh,
All human; bearing in themselves this good,
That they are still the air, the subtle food,
To make us feel existence, and to shew
How quiet death is.
from Endymion, Book II, l.153-159.


"I'd never ask you to trust me. It's the cry of a guilty soul."

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Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Welcome_joy,_and_welcome_sorrow

It's not used in the film, but should have been!

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