Stanza 1
Poems (1820), Ode to a Nightingale
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English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
“We have murder by the throat.”
David Lloyd George
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On the Irish Republican Army, in a speech at Guildhall, London (9 November 1920), quoted in The Times (10 November 1920), p. 12
Prime Minister
“A nation of monkeys with the throat of parrots.”
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès
(1748–1836) French ''abbé'' ad statesman
Note to Mirabeau, speaking of France, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922), "France", p. 294.
“I want to seize fate by the throat.”
Ludwig Van Beethoven
(1770–1827) German Romantic composer
Letter to F.G. Wegeler, 16 November, 1801.
“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.”
Robert Frost
(1874–1963) American poet
As quoted in Robert Frost: the Trial by Existence (1960) by Elizabeth S. Sergeant, Ch. 18
1960s
Variant: Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
“The gash in its throat was shocking, but not pathetic.”
Ted Hughes
(1930–1998) English poet and children's writer
"View of a Pig"
Lupercal (1960)
“Fingers down the throat of love! Love! Love!”
Nick Cave
(1957) Australian musician
Song lyrics, The Bad Seed EP (1993), Fears of Gun
“Here's your throat back, thanks for the loan.”
Bob Dylan
(1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Ballad of a Thin Man
“An unquestioned creed is a noose about the throat of Reason.”
Source: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 3 (p. 211)