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I've been reading poetry for some short while, now, and am curious to know what poems and poets INFJs are most drawn to. Given my rather... convoluted... opinions on religion et al, I try to avoid any mention of deities (which aren't accepted as dead, anyway), but am interested in those which appeal most to human inspiration and courage. My current favorite is Shakespeare's Sonnet #29, below, while these others leave a powerful mark:
Tao Te Ching - Chapter 33 - Lao Tzu
Invictus (Unconquered) - William Ernest Henley
Fire - Judy Brown
Kindness - Naomi Shihab Nye
The Way It Is - William Stafford
Sonnet #29
When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf Heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself, and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd,
Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least:
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee,--and then my state
(Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings'.
- William Shakespeare
Tao Te Ching - Chapter 33 - Lao Tzu
Invictus (Unconquered) - William Ernest Henley
Fire - Judy Brown
Kindness - Naomi Shihab Nye
The Way It Is - William Stafford
Sonnet #29
When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf Heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself, and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd,
Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least:
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee,--and then my state
(Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings'.
- William Shakespeare
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Re: Favorite Poems of an INFJ
Mon, January 26, 2009 - 7:58 AMMy favourite poems are those that appeal to inspiration and courage as well.
Here are some of my favourites try looking them up :)
Can't by Edgar Guest (a poem about teaching us to say yes instead of no)
Hope is a thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson (about hope)
I shall not live in vain by Emily Dickinson (self-explanatory)
Solitude by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (ditto)
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Re: Favorite Poems of an INFJ
Wed, February 11, 2009 - 9:54 PMGod is my Beloved
God and I are lovers
He lifts me in tidal embraces
That turn the world on end
God is my Beloved
the ultimate in lovers
We ride through timeless spaces
a rapture without end
God is my Beloved
from first to last my lover
I surrender to him praises
and never ask the end
~James Broughton