Dannie Abse quotes
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“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 AbseSource : "Susannah Herbert on Dannie Abse, the poetry judge". www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2014.
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“Are all men in disguise except those crying?”
-- Dannie AbseSource : Dannie Abse (1986). “Ask the bloody horse”, Vintage
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“Leave my soul alone, leave my soul alone”
-- Dannie AbseSource : Dannie Abse, Jeremy Robson (1973). “Poetry Dimension”
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“The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama.”
-- Dannie AbseSource : 1984 Journa lentry,Feb,collected in Journals from the Ant-Heap (1986).
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“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 AbseSource : Dannie Abse (2001). “Goodbye, Twentieth Century: An Autobiography”, Vintage
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“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 AbseSource : 'Pathology of Colours' (1968)
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“I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.”
Source : A.S. King (2010). “Please Ignore Vera Dietz”, p.29, Knopf Books for Young Readers
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“Drunk with beauty, I tore down Armfuls of blossoms. How desolate the marred sky!”
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“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.”
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“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
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