----- 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?
|