“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
Source: Bluebeard's Egg
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Canadian writer 1939Related quotes
“While he smells like nectar, you smell like a goat.”
As quoted in The Barbarian's Beverage: A History of Beer in Ancient Europe (2005) by Max Nelson, p. 28. In this epigram, Julian mocked the beer of the Germans and Celts as disgusting in comparison with wine.
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Context: Who and from where are you Dionysus?
Since by the true Bacchus,
I do not recognize you; I know only the son of Zeus.
While he smells like nectar, you smell like a goat.
Can it be then that the Celts because of lack of grapes
Made you from cereals? Therefore one should call you
Demetrius, not Dionysus, rather wheat born and Bromus,
Not Bromius.
"Archeology"
Poems New and Collected (1998), The People on the Bridge (1986)
“I think pot should be legal. I don’t smoke it, but I like the smell of it.”
“There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.”
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
“The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another.”
Fisherman's Luck http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/fshlk10.txt, ch. 5 (1899)
Context: The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
