And he pressed the silver spoon against the blade. Will, holding the knife, felt only the slightest resistance as the tip of the spoon's handle fell to the table, cut clean off.
"The other edge," the old man went on, "is more subtle still. With it you can cut an opening out of this world altogether. Try it now. Do as I say — you are the bearer. You have to know. No one can teach you but me, and I have not much time left. Stand up and listen."
Source: His Dark Materials, The Subtle Knife (1997), Ch. 8 : The Tower of the Angels
“Oh, the testosterone. You could have cut it with a cafeteria spoon.”
Source: Betrayals
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“Be, as you have been, my happiness;
Let me sleep beside you, each night, like a spoon.”
"Woman," lines 170-171
The Lost World (1965)
"Inka Dinka Doo" (1933) written with Fred Ryan and Harry Donnelly.
“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;”
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Source: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
Context: Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
For I have known them all already, known them all: —
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
“Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill.”
Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)