"Love on the Dole"
Lyrics and poetry
“Don't be surprised if I demur, for, be advised
My passport's green.
No glass of ours was ever raised
To toast The Queen.”
An Open Letter (1983), p. 9.
Objecting to his inclusion in The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry.
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Seamus Heaney 29
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer 1939–2013Related quotes
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
“I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear
I like my toast done on one side…"
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Source: Nothing Like the Sun
Raise Your Glass, written by Pink, Max Martin, and Shellback
Song lyrics, Greatest Hits... So Far!!! (2010)
“Wine enters through the mouth,
Love, the eyes.
I raise the glass to my mouth,
I look at you,
I sigh.”
“To the stupidity of men, " Dakota said, raising a glass. "And my brother, who is their king.”
Source: Almost Perfect
“A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.”
Source: Citizen Kane
Interview with Martin Bashir on BBC Panorama (20 November 1995)