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
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> >
> > 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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