“The boy was dead eager, which could soon lead to plain dead.”
Mat, about Olver
(11 October 2005)
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“When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.”
“The dead boy was not one of ours, he was in a black bloc.”
Il ragazzo morto non era uno dei nostri, era un black block.
as quoted on TG5, Canale 5, (July 20, 2001)
from the first statement to the press on the death of protester Carlo Giuliani at the 27th G8 summit in Genoa
“Anger as soon as fed is dead-
'Tis starving makes it fat.”
Source: Selected Poems
Source: The Ophiuchi Hotline (1977), Chapter 1 (p. 4)
“But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something.”
Source: The Silent Gondoliers
“After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.”
Statement to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, referring to his son, Edward, Prince of Wales
Quoted in Keith Middlemas and John Barnes, Baldwin (1969) ch.34
"Jean Francois", from Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches.
“King Pandion, he is dead,
All thy friends are lapped in lead.”
Ode, l. 23.
Poems: In Divers Humours (1598)