Know the poem, Andrew, but
a) is the title not a quote itself?
b) although one would agree the poem is 'famous' among those who like poetry
that is not the same as it having entered the language.
Best
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Burke" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: Help! The grass is singing
> 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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