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Call me Snake.
(Nick Castle (b. 1947), U.S. screenwriter, and John Carpenter. S.D. "Snake" Plissken, Escape from New York, when meeting a government official who calls him Plissken—line repeated when Plissken meets others (1981).)
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Green Snake, when I hung you round my neck
and stroked your cold, pulsing throat
(Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-American poet. To the Snake (l. 1-2). . .
Poetry Anthology, The, 1912-1977. Daryl Hine and Joseph Parisi, eds. (1978) Houghton Mifflin Company.)
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There's a snake lurking in the grass.
(Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] (70-19 B.C.), Roman poet. Eclogues, no. 3, l. 93 (37 B.C.).)
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Made of old rags of tongues,
of flesh slipped through the abortionist's knife
you snake thing....
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "Snake.")
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I fear me you but warm the starvθd snake,
Who, cherished in your breasts, will sting your hearts.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. York, in Henry VI, Part 2, act 3, sc. 1, l. 343-4.
Plotting rebellion.)
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The dawn alps,
the stilled snake of
river asleep in its
wide bed ...
(Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "Perspectives.")
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a shiver, a delight
that what is passing
is here, as if
a snake went by, green in the
gray leaves.
(Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "The Coming Fall.")
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We have scorched the snake, not killed it:
She'll close and be herself.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Macbeth, in Macbeth, act 3, sc. 2, l. 13-4.
"Scorched" means slashed, scored; "close" means heal up.)
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