Hello there! I'm brand new to the lovely world of Write Out Loud, so apologies if this has been done before.

I was just wondering what peoples' favourite lines they've ever written were.

Mine would be:

'I love the taste of cigarettes on your lips. It might be killing you, but it makes me feel alive.'

Not a line/s that I've written, but my favourite line from a song (poetic writer? Paul Simon) towards the end of 'A Train in the Distance'

"the thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and brains"

I’m lower case type that inhabits the basement
where jars and saucepans in a slapdash placement
create an imperfect kind of enjambment

employed to collect red wine and sushi,
filter and ferment into something fruity;
that’s my trickle-down theory of beauty.

Steve, if I had to pick a line from a song it'd be Josh Ritter:

"All the other girls here are stars, you are the northern lights. They try to shine in through your curtain, but you're too close and too bright."

Paul Simon's fantastic though, although it was a bit gutting that he had a throat problem when I saw him at Glasto this summer.

beep beep beep beep
late blackbird apes
as I set the alarm

are my favourite opening lines from my own poems (they're from a poem called Autumn Almanac.)

I just like the fact that I can get away with it...

"They will come again, the leaf and flower, to arise
From squalor of rottenness into the old splendour,
And magical scents to a wondering memory bring
The same glory, to shine upon different eyes.
Earth cares for her own ruins, nought for ours.
Nothing is certain, only the certain
spring."
(Laurence Binyon)
Those lines bring a tear whenever I
read them or hear them read.

Lately its been this -

But a dark other Adam is dreaming
a neuter moon of seedless stone
where the child of light will burn.

Adam - Lorca

The finest lines of verse ever to come out of Chapel Haddlesey are
"I pined wi' unrequited love -
I'd never 'ad a shag;
Mi 'eart 'ung 'eavy wi' chagrin -
Mi balls like saddlebags".
When I wrote it I cried.