Famous Delete Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Delete poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous delete poems. These examples illustrate what a famous delete poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Gregory, Rg
...emned when those insights retreat
impermanence is eternity's recorder -
with an intricate sense of pattern power can't delete
the round honours those cracks in the divine disorder
the moment makes complete
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the actor
acting is not the true self's dissipation
but not its preening either - outside the role
it honours it best fights shy of reputation -
being what prometheus stole
it is a distant spark of that first live coal
a conscious glimpse of human desperation...Read more of this...
by
Pessoa, Fernando
...To be great, be whole: nothing
Yours exaggerate nor delete.
Be whole at everything. Be yourself
at the little things you do.
So that in each lake the whole moon
Shines because high it lives....Read more of this...
by
Wilbur, Richard
...He did not in a rage
Once and forever rule me off the page,
But, thinking I might come to please Him yet,
Crossed out 'delete' and wrote His patient 'stet'....Read more of this...
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