If you could save only one book of poetry, which would it be?

[Marguerite]

I have an anthology of love poems. It soothes my soul.

[mrbob99992000]

the collection of Emily Dickinson... or however you spell her name because that was the first book of poetry that i read all the way through, and read one of them for my class a couple years ago

[vivek iyer]

iam basically a poet bit none of my works are on nature.........hence as u all know i would save the works of william wordsworth.......the gem of all.........i do like shakespeare but as an answer for relative comparison i would definitely go with shakespeare

[Ask Gideon]

It would have to be Milton's Paradise Lost.
However, my best bet would be to give Annabella a hand carrying her 20 volumes. As I'm not fluid in French, we could then divide them up.

[Annabella]

Mon Dieu, how could I choose? First, I would like to be able to read both in French and in English... Why choose Rimbaud over Shakespeare, and why choose Milton over Hugo?
And I would like to be able to read poetry from different periods. Why choose Sidney over Keats, and why choose Aragon over Donne?
And what about Homer? What about Celan? What about Dante? What about Virgil? What about Neruda?
So, I would choose "The Anthology of World Poetry both in French and English, from the Origins to the Present Times" (in 20 volumes).

EDIT: I tried... but to no avail... It would have to be something uplifting then, by Hugo. Probably Les Contemplations. I would have to borrow Gideon's Paradise Lost from time to time.

[Sptfyr]

Shakespeare most definitely

[See how they run]

I have a whole collection of poetry books! Well, shoot, the first one I could grab I guess. But then what am I gunna do if I'm dead?