#they're in a pretty much arbitrary order basically just how i excerpted them from my master folder of poems i like

[queenlucythevaliant]

@imissthembutitwasntadisaster​ posed the question, “what is your poem?” Rather than answering with one or two like a normal person, here’s a quote quilt featuring my twenty favorite poems.  

“You will hear thunder,” Anna Akhmatova 

“Musica Humana,” Ilya Kaminsky

“Inland,” Edna St. Vincent Millay

“High Flight,” John Gillespie Magee Jr. 

“The Old Astronomer to His Pupil,” Sarah Williams

“The Cremation of Sam McGee,” Robert Service

“Cathedral Builders,” John Ormond

“A Brief for the Defense,” Jack Gilbert

“Joy,” Carl Sandburg

“Taking Down the Tree,” Jane Kenyon

“Planetarium,” Adrienne Rich

Holy Sonnets: XIV, John Donne

“Love Among the Ruins,” Robert Browning

“As the Ruin Falls,” C.S. Lewis

“City of Man,” Charles Williams

“Mythopoeia,” J.R.R. Tolkien

“The Pearl,” George Herbert

“Curiosity,” Alastair Reid

“A Wedding,” Boris Pasternak 

“The Last Hero,” G.K. Chesterton ( @laurelin-of-valinor ‘s fault.)

#strictly speaking these aren't exactly my 20 favorite poems #i didn't want to include multiple poems by any one author #wanted a good spread ya know #anyway i'm very extra what can i say #intertextuality #gang if you read all these poems (or even this whole post heck) you are quite close to understanding my heart #they're in a pretty much arbitrary order basically just how i excerpted them from my master folder of poems i like #pontifications and creations #literature makes us more human