Dannie Abse famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real poem.
-- Dannie Abse

#Real #Drunk #Littles
Are all men in disguise except those crying?
-- Dannie Abse

#Men #Tears #Cry
Leave my soul alone, leave my soul alone
-- Dannie Abse

#Soul
The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama.
-- Dannie Abse

#Drama #Identity #Theme
Praying is another way of singing.You plant in the tree the soul of lemons.You plant in the gardens the spirit of roses.
-- Dannie Abse

#Garden #Rose #Tree
I know the colour rose, and it is lovely, But not when it ripens in a tumour; And healing greens, leaves and grass, so springlike, In limbs that fester are not springlike.
-- Dannie Abse

#Healing #Rose #Lovely

Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.
Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.
Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.
I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.
I got drunk in Canada. I was there for 2 days but I was drunk there for 4 days. I don't know how it worked. I guess it was with the time difference or something.
No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot
Drunk with beauty, I tore down Armfuls of blossoms. How desolate the marred sky!
As a rapper, I don't freestyle. I used to freestyle when I used to get drunk, and it didn't matter.
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.

Dannie Abse famous quotes

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