Quotations About / On: GREEN

  • 41.
    My salad days,
    When I was green in judgment, cold in blood,
    To say as I said then!
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Cleopatra, in Antony and Cleopatra, act 1, sc. 5, l. 73-5. Dismissing her earlier love for Julius Caesar.)
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  • 42.
    Farewell green fields and happy groves,
    Where flocks have took delight.
    (William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. From SONGS OF INNOCENCE. Night (l. 9-10). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.)
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  • 43.
    Thanks to the morning light,
    Thanks to the foaming sea,
    To the uplands of New Hampshire,
    To the green-haired forest free.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "The World-Soul," Poems (1847).)
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  • 44.
    Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death
    The memory be green.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Claudius, in Hamlet, act 1, sc. 2, l. 1-2. "Green" means fresh; he has been dead two months.)
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  • 45.
    I passed a tomb among green shades
    Where seven anemones with down-dropped heads
    Wept tears of dew upon the stone beneath.
    (Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights. AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936) Reynal & Hitchcock.)
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  • 46.
    Like the bee that now is blown,
    Honey-heavy on my hand,
    From his toppling tansy-throne
    In the green tempestuous land—
    (Edmund Blunden (1896-1974), British poet, critic. Forefathers (l. 31-34). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 47.
    A ship's not a ship to me 'til she gets her teeth into green water.
    (John Rhodes Sturdy, Canadian screenwriter. Richard Rossen. Evans (Walter Sande), Corvette K-225 (1943).)
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  • 48.
    Learn of the green world what can be thy place
    In scaled invention or true artistry,
    (Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet. Canto LXXXI (l. 145-146). . . The Cantos of Ezra Pound. (1970, repr. 1991) New Directions.)
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  • 49.
    In a drear-nighted December,
    Too happy, happy tree,
    Thy branches ne'er remember
    Their green felicity:
    (John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. In Drear-nighted December (l. 1-4). . . The Complete Poems [John Keats]. John Barnard, ed. (3d ed., 1988) Penguin.)
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  • 50.
    Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
    About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,
    The night above the dingle starry,
    (Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. Fern Hill (l. 1-3). . . The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas, 1934-1952 (1953, rev. ed. 1956) New Directions.)
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