I always loved browsing such posts on reddit, so thought I should make one on lemmy too
Edit: Usually these kind of posts only used to have excerpts from books or ancient proverbs, but now I am seeing a lot more quotes from shows/movies/games are also resonating with people. It’s pretty cool to see.
Does a poem count? Ozymandias has stuck with me forever.
We’ll start a new ancient Egypt, with hookers and booze.
I thought this was some quote from like, Iliad times. Nope, this is Percy Bysshe Shelley. That guy was pretty awesome
My favourite poem; I was just thinking about reading it again, and here we are. Thanks!
Fun facts time! There are actually two versions of Ozymandias, one written by Shelley and the other by his friend Horace Smith. They had a competition to both write a poem with the same title and subject matter, which I think it’s fair to say Shelley won. But anyway, here is Smith’s version: