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12 Famous Book Titles That Come From Poetry

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1. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold - “I Knew a Woman” by Theodore Roethke

I knew a woman, lovely in her bones,
When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them;
Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one:
The shapes a bright container can contain! 

2. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh - The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

…I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust. 

3. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe - “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; 

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My girlfriend and I wanted to cuddle, but we wanted to play Diablo too. This is what happened.

you guys
are my heroes

one time my girlfriend wanted to cuddle me but I was genuinely trying to type something, so instead of making her let go of my right arm, I just made her type half the letters with her right hand and I did the other half with my left :)

destroyerofbacon:

ircimages:

My girlfriend and I wanted to cuddle, but we wanted to play Diablo too. This is what happened.

you guys

are my heroes

one time my girlfriend wanted to cuddle me but I was genuinely trying to type something, so instead of making her let go of my right arm, I just made her type half the letters with her right hand and I did the other half with my left :)

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