Quotes about wine
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„When I spoke about Bond with Fleming, he said that when the character was conceived, Bond was a very simple, straightforward, blunt instrument of the police force, a functionary who would carry out his job rather doggedly. But he also had a lot of idiosyncrasies that were considered snobbish -- such as a taste for special wines, et cetera. But if you take Bond in the situations that he is constantly involved with, you see that it is a very hard, high, unusual league that he plays in. Therefore he is quite right in having all his senses satisfied -- be it sex, wine, food or clothes -- because the job, and he with it, may terminate at any minute. But the virtues that Amis mentions -- loyalty, honesty -- are there, too.“
— Sean Connery Scottish actor and producer 1930
PLAYBOY interview November 1965.
„Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.“
— John Keats English Romantic poet 1795 - 1821
„In the evening you hear the scream of bats,
Two black horses jump in the meadow,
The red maple rustles.
To the traveller the small inn appears by the wayside.
Wonderful the taste of young wine and nuts,
Wonderful: stumbling drunk into darkening wood.
Through black branches painful bells sound,
On the face dew drips.“
— Georg Trakl austrian poet 1887 - 1914
"Towards Evening My Heart," Poems (1913)
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/10/29/wild-heart-turning-white-georg-trakl-and-cocaine/
„I'm nobody. I'm a tramp, a bum, a hobo. I'm a boxcar and a jug of wine, and a straight razor if you get too close to me.“
— Charles Manson American criminal and musician 1934 - 2017
Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqrqaPThCmI
„The murderer smiles palely in wine,
Death's horror grips the sick.
Excoriated and naked, the nun prays
Before the Savior's agony on the cross.
The mother sings quietly in sleep.
Peacefully the child looks into the night
With eyes that are completely truthful.
In the whorehouse laughter rings.
By candlelight down in the cellar hole
The dead one paints with white hand
A grinning silence on the wall.
The sleeper whispers still.“
— Georg Trakl austrian poet 1887 - 1914
"Romance in the Night"
„The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop,
The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.“
— Omar Khayyám Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer 1048 - 1131
The Rubaiyat (1120)
Context: Whether at Naishapur or Babylon,
Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run,
The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop,
The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.
„I am tipsy after my
own feelings
themselves have become wine.
I forget myself, world and all.“
— Suman Pokhrel Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist 1967
<span class="plainlinks"> The Tajmahal and my Love http://www.best-poems.net/love_poems/the_taj_mahal_amp_my_love.html/</span>
From Poetry
„You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.“
— Derek Walcott Saint Lucian–Trinidadian poet and playwright 1930 - 2017
"Love after Love"
Source: "A Far Cry from Africa" (1962), Collected Poems, 1948-1984 (1986)
„What's got into your head? That I'm returning to my origins? The important things I have in my blood and nobody is going to take them away. I'm here to drink a bottle of my wine and sing a little–with anybody.“
— Cesare Pavese Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator 1908 - 1950
Source: The Beach (1941), Chapter 2, p. 9
„Thirty five years ago.... Sandy [Alexander Calder, and his wife] Louisa came to see me at Montroig, where I conceived the farm [Montroig in Spain, where Miro had a farm in the 1930s], where the trees, the mountains, the sky, the house, the vineyards, have remained the same. There were the mules have always eaten carobs, and where we have the same warming red wine. Well then, one day I invited all my neighbours, the farmers and workmen of the district to see the Circus that Calder had brought. Everyone was transfixed and totally overwhelmed by it.“
— Joan Miró Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist 1893 - 1983
1961 and later
„I never drink…wine.“
— Garrett Fort screenwriter 1900 - 1945
Dracula, to Harker, at his castle
Dracula (1931)
„Satin rays and coloured days
Stark blue horizons
Naked limbs and wheat bins, hazy afternoons
Voicing, rejoicing the wine cups do bring
Pussywillows, cat-tails, soft winds and roses“
— Gordon Lightfoot Canadian singer-songwriter 1938
Pussywillows, Cat-Tails, Track 8, UNITED ARTISTS
Did She Mention My Name? (1968)
„Life from nonlife, like wine from water, has long been considered a miracle wrought by gods or God. Now it is seen to be the near-inevitable consequence of our thermal and chemical circumstances.“
— Ursula Goodenough, book The Sacred Depths of Nature
Source: The Sacred Depths of Nature (1998), p. 28
„…he became one with his Chinese parishioners, announcing a trade as honest as that of the dentist, the seller of rice-wine, the brothel-keeper, the purveyor of quack rejuvenators and aphrodisiacs, or the vendor of shark’s-fin strips.“
— Anthony Burgess English writer 1917 - 1993
Fiction, The Enemy in the Blanket (1958)
„Enjoy a cup of wine while you're alive!
Do not care if your fame will not survive!“
— Li Bai Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty poetry period 701 - 762
"Hard Is the Way of the World" III http://wengu.tartarie.com/wg/wengu.php?no=84&l=Tangshi, trans. Witter Bynner
Original: (zh_Hant) 且樂生前一杯酒，何須身後千載名。
„When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die," he mumbled, through mashed lips. "But I'd like a flagon of wine.“
— Robert E. Howard American author 1906 - 1936
"Rogues in the House" (1934)
„To forbid wine to a man of your type is the same as forbidding women to a man of a different sort.“
— Alain-René Lesage French writer 1668 - 1747
La Tontine (1709)