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Famous Strait And Narrow Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Strait And Narrow poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous strait and narrow poems. These examples illustrate what a famous strait and narrow poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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...ss inexhaustible freshness, as in the discovery
 of America and of poetry.

Hence it is clear that the truth is not strait and narrow but infinite:
All roads lead to Rome and to poetry
 and to poem, sweet poem
 and from, away and towards are the same typography.

Hence the poet must be, in a way, stupid and naive and a 
 little child;

Unless ye be as a little child ye cannot enter the kingdom 
 of poetry.

Hence the poet must be able to become a tiger like Blake;...Read more of this...
by Schwartz, Delmore



...enter in
For good deeds done on earth,
One who from Peter's self must win
That meed of sterling worth.

Not to the strait and narrow gate
Reserved for wealthy men,
But to the big gate, opened wide,
The grizzled figure, eagle-eyed,
Will saunter up -- and then
Old Peter'll say: "Let's pass him through;
There's many a thing he used to do,
Good-hearted things that no one knew;
That's T.Y.S.O.N."...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton

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