9 Dannie Abse Quotes

Dannie Abse quotes

1. Praying is another way of singing. You plant in the tree the soul of lemons. You plant in the gardens the spirit of roses.

2. I know the colour rose, and it is lovely, But not when it ripens in a tumour.

3. Leave my soul alone, leave my soul alone

4. And silence matched the silence under snow.

1. Are all men in disguise except those crying?

2. I hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real poem.

3. The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama.

4. “You have a beautiful classy mind but I find you physically unattractive”

5. “Piano At 66 Sandringham Crescent an upright piano was being eased down a long flight of stairs by three men all wearing off-white overalls. Backward, staccato, two stepped descending one stair at a time till the taller of the two men began to collapse in slow slow slow motion and the piano leapt to the hallway's rising floor crashing its memories of music: simple tunes such as 3 Blind Mice, as well as great meaningful sonatas of profundity and faraway, into a scattered anarchic jigsaw of free-loving volatile meaningless sounds fading till the stricken piano lost its memory entirely. After the ambulance arrived (too late) one removal man lit a cigarette and sensing the wide-awake stare of the householder tapped the grey ash, with great delicacy, into the cupped hollow of his left hand.”