GIVE AN EXAMPLE of the best writing you've ever read

by Terry 20 years ago 68 Replies latest 3 years ago social entertainment

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  jgnat 20 years ago

  Here's a poet who always makes me think:

  http://www.poetry.com/Publications/display.asp?ID=P0786860&BN=070&PN=1

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  gumby 20 years ago

  "And this good news of the kingdom will be preached as a witness to all the inhabited earth, and then the end will come" Matt.24:14

  *giggles*

  Gumby

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  myelaine 20 years ago

  I've always thought Charles Bukowski's work is really real, and I like that.

  and of course the Bible, I especially like ...........To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I will give to him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows except him who receives it. ( I want that stone! )

  michelle

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  bisous 20 years ago

  Hope is a thing with feathers

  that perches in the soul

  and sings the tune

  without the words

  and never stops at all.

  -Emily Dickinson

  not the only best, but one of my favorites ... lyrical and soft.

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  Dismembered 20 years ago

  "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"

  Dismembered

  "Don't you go dyin' on me now"

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  CaptainSchmideo 20 years ago

  "There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable... There is another theory which states that this has already happened." - Douglas Adams

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  Preston 20 years ago

  Cool Story Jeannie

  My favorite Asimov, the full version is pretty cool

  - Preston

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  ValiantBoy 20 years ago

  Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas.

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  DanTheMan 20 years ago

  Alyosha's speech at the stone at the very end of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov is one of the most powerful things I've ever read.

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  Whiskeyjack 20 years ago

  Nothing profound but I've always had a wish that I could have thanked George MacDonald Fraser in person for his Flashman Papers series and for the McAuslan chronicles. This man's sense of humour and history helped keep me sane in an increasingly autistic world.

  It just goes to prove that good things can come from Scotland after all!

  W.

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