Robert Creeley's great li'l, anthologised-a-lot poem 'I Know a Man', now
used as a title by a novel and a film, if I'm not mistaken.
To quote Frank Zappa, 'Where ya been living? Receda?'
Andrew
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: Help! The grass is singing
> > Drive, he said.
>
> Did he? did who? Andrew, I don't know what you're talking about (hope it's
> not the force that drives the green fuse, apart from anything else that's
> pre-1945)
>
> Anyhow, your comment sounds awfully clever but seems to belong in a
private
> conversation. If it is a quote entire, it rings no bells at all.
>
> Best (puzzled)
>
> Dave
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Burke" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 7:26 AM
> Subject: Re: Help! The grass is singing
>
>
> > Drive, he said.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 12:42 PM
> > Subject: Re: Help! The grass is singing
> >
> >
> > > Yeah, Fred, you can extend it to Dylan Thomas. I'm trying to refine my
> > > question, how about this, what quotes from poems written in English
> > wriiten
> > > post 1945 have entered the language? So far we have three, yes?
> > >
> > > All the Best
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Frederick Pollack" <[log in to unmask]>
> > > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 5:36 AM
> > > Subject: Re: Help! The grass is singing
> > >
> > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
> > > > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 11:22 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: Help! The grass is singing
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > I was thinking the other day of what quotes from contemporary or
> near
> > > > > contemporary English language poets have actually entered the
> > language:
> > > > > the
> > > > > result was so depressing, as far as I know you have Larkin's 'They
> > fuck
> > > > > you
> > > > > up your mom and dad' which even gets on to tee-shirts, and of
course
> > > > > Stevie
> > > > > Smith's 'Not waving but drowning'. I can't think of any others
> > > > > (suggestions
> > > > > welcome, they'd cheer me up, I don't like my cultural pessimism,
it
> > > makes
> > > > > me
> > > > > sound echt-conservative!)
> > > > >
> > > > "Do no go gentle." The imaginary fighter-pilot/president in
> > "Independence
> > > > Day" quotes it before flying off to battle the aliens. What more
> could
> > > one
> > > > ask?
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