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Can you guess which poet wrote which lines? Test your poetry knowledge with this quiz.
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To me, poetry is like music- I read it, I love it and I read it again when I feel like reading and when you're reading same stuff all over again they stuck in your mind, and if someone suddenly comes to you and start to recite some lines you instantly recognize the style and poet who wrote it. I understand there are many poets out there with different writing style, not everyone is fond of same things, therefore you probably won't know the answers on each question. I'd like you to test your knowledge without googling it though.
This quiz is basically about some of my favorite poetry lines of famous, published poets. Like I said already, poetry is like a music to me- I love the whole idea of it, not just single genre or writing style. I don't have just a single favorite poet and I don't have a single favorite poem. I do have a poem that perfectly describes one of my often moods though. Here's a poem for your reading pleasure before you start to test your poetry knowledge.

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In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.

When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body’s been.

We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.
       ~Mark Strand~


Note*- you'll probably run across few lines written by the same poet. This quiz is just about that, favorite lines, not favorite lines by all different poets *Wink*. I'm looking forward to see your answers, who knows, maybe we have a same poetry taste *Quill*!


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             so remember, you can only take it one time.

1. Which poet wrote these lines?:
 I had the idea — the hope of friending you without electricity.
       Deborah Landau        
       Mary Oliver        
       Buddy Wakefield        
2. Which poet wrote these lines?:
 The kind of love letters I write are the one you read in bed, stretched out under the sheets with one hand between your legs.
       Charles Bukowski        
       Michael Faudet        
       David R. Bunch        
3. Which poet wrote these lines?:
 Skin doesn't have roots, it peels away easy as paper.
       Adrienne Rich        
       Elizabeth Bishop        
       Sylvia Plath        
4. Which poet wrote these lines?:
 I wish that your breast exhaled the scent of sanity.
       D.H.Lawrence        
       Charles Baudelaire        
       Allen Ginsberg        
5. Which poet wrote these lines?:
 Nothing that happened here on earth and who I thought I was, and nothing that I did or that was done to me, was ever real.
       Tony Hoagland        
       Carl Sandburg        
       Ogden Nash        
6. Which poet wrote these lines?:
 Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind;
       William Wordsworth        
       William Blake        
       William Shakespeare        
7. Which poet wrote these lines?:
 When I looked at my blood under a microscope I could see truth multiplying over and over.
       Tony Hoagland        
       Frank O'Hara        
       Christina Rossetti        
8. Which poet wrote these lines?:
 I wanted to eat an apple so precisely the tree would make another exactly like it.
       Maya Angelou        
       T.S.Elliot        
       Deborah Landau        
9. Which poet wrote these lines?:
 I listen to the water on nights I drink away and the sadness becomes so great I hear it in my clock
       Mark Strand        
       Charles Bukowski        
       Allen Ginsberg        
10. Which poet wrote these lines?:
 When by now and tree by leaf, she laughed his joy she cried his grief, bird by snow and stir by still, anyone’s any was all to her
       Robert Frost        
       e.e.cummings        
       Shel Silverstein        
11. Which poet wrote these lines?:
 There is a point when tears don’t work to wash things away anymore. Grabbing for breath has now broken my fingers.
       Joshua Bennet        
       Buddy Wakefield        
       Sarah Kay        
12. Which poet wrote these lines?:
 The sky was green wine held up in the sun, the moon was a golden petal between.
       T.S.Elliot        
       Robert Frost        
       D.H.Lawrence        
13. Which poet wrote these lines?:
 Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
       Sylvia Plath        
       Christina Rossetti        
       Anne Sexton        
14. Which poet wrote these lines?:
 In their entwined sleep they exchanged arms and legs, in their dreams their brains took each other hostage, in the morning they wore each other's face.
       Sylvia Plath        
       Ted Hughes        
       T.S.Elliot        
15. Which poet wrote these lines?:
 His skin is a brutally beautiful handwritten letter from the sun.
       Buddy Wakefield        
       Saul Williams        
       Dia Davina        
16. Which poet wrote these lines?:
 Time to get drunk! Don't be martyred slaves of Time, Get drunk! Stay drunk! On wine, virtue, poetry, whatever!
       Charles Bukowski        
       Walt Whitman        
       Charles Baudelaire        
17. Which poet wrote these lines?:
 Oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much.
       Frank O'Hara        
       Sara Teasdale        
       Dorothy Parker        
18. Which poet wrote these lines?:
 Except in this form in which I am not nor are you, so close that your hand upon my chest is mine, so close that your eyes close with my dreams.
       e.e.cummings        
       Pablo Neruda        
       Langston Hughes        
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