12 Things You Say Without Realizing You’re Quoting Poetry

Many of Expressions and expressions Which entered the daily language from the works of Shakespeare, from the original A hopeful campaign from it in Romeo and Juliet to Macbeth‘s Everything and end. But the relationship between daily expressions and literature does not end there – if you talk before about “birds and bees” or referred to “the best plans of mice and men”, then it was unintentionally quoted from some of the English poets fame.

1. There is no island man
2. For the graphics bell (walking to you)
3. Archbishop around your neck
4. Birds and bees
5. The truth is strange to imagination
6. Something of beauty is joy forever
7. Red
8. Abandoning hope in everything they enter here
9. The light journey is great
10. Do not meet Twain (you must meet)
11. Lesser
12. Best mice and men plans

There is no island man

It is used as a reminder like me that no one is completely independent and that everyone is somehow dependent on others, which is the phrase that comes from “seventeenth meditation”, which is part of the Metaphysian poet John Dens Prose Dowry in emerging occasions:

“There is no island man, entirely; every man is a piece of the continent, part of the main.”

Written DedicationA series of 23 articles on life, death, health, and disease ± with a recovery of a semi -fatal disease in the early twenties and published in 1624. 17 of his sincerity also includes another famous line …

For the graphics bell (walking to you)

He continued to read “the eighteenth meditation”, and you will reach this line, which Ernest Hemingway took as the title of his novel for 1940: “… that is, the death of men reduces me, because I am involved in the human race; and therefore, he is never sent to the one who studies the bell;

Archbishop around your neck

Refuse something like a heart around your neck Meaning It is a problem or a disturbing or stressful curse. The expression comes from the famous scene in the movie “Rime of the of the Ancient Mariner” for the Samuel Taylor Coleidge, where he shoots the named sea and kills a Qatari – a sign of good luck or profince in marine folklore – after his ship and crew suffer from a terrible series of Mishaps:

“Oh! Well a day! What seems evil
I had from the old and the young!
Instead of the cross, Al -Qatros
About my hanging neck. “

Birds and bees

The origins of this phrase are mysterious, but it is generally believed to be severely inspired by Colleridge, who was written in his poem in 1825.Work without hope::

“All nature looks at work. Mollasate leaves its hideout –
Bees excite – birds on the wing –
And winter sleep in the open air,
He wears the smiling face of the spring of spring! “

The truth is strange to imagination

Thanks to Lord Bayron is due to both Promotion phrase Carby shut up In English (stole a line from the Romanian lyric poet Horas), and with the early use of Napoleon’s defeat in 1815 in Waterlo Casin Any large proverb Loss or setbacks. But in Canto 14 His epic poem Don Juan (C. 1823), Peron also gave us the example The truth is strange to imagination:

“Strange – but it is true, because the truth is always strange;
Strange imagination; If it can be said,
How many novels will happen through the stock exchange! “

Something of beauty is joy forever

Proverb Something of beauty is joy forever It is actually The first line “Endymion” poem (1818):

“Something of beauty is joy forever:
Her love increases. won’t
He passes into nothingness. But it will remain
Quiet from close and sleep
Fry with sweet dreams, health and calm breathing. “

In reference to the fall in the name The opening line From his intention 1820 “to autumn”.

Red

If there is something red in the teeth and the mixture, it is brutal without mercy. This phrase was used volatile to describe competitive positions or engagement intensively since Alfred, Lord Teenison included the line in his poem in 1850, “In Memoriam AHH”:

“Whoever trusts in God was really love
And the final law for the creation of love –
Those nature, red in the teeth and the claw
With Wafn, screaming against his faith –
Whoever loves, who suffers from an endless disease,
Who fought for the real, just,
It explodes from desert dust,
Or seal inside the iron hills? “

Abandoning hope in everything they enter here

According to Dante “Hell”, words Abandoning hope in everything they enter here The last nine lines engraved over the entrance to hell. The phrase was present in a number of different shapes and words over the years, for parts of Dante Divine comedy It was first translated into English from the fourteenth Italian century in the late eighteenth century; At that time, this famous line was presented as an unforgettable lower, “Yi who enters here to restore despair.” But in 1814, the famous English translator Henry Francis Carrey finally gave us the edition that we know today:

“From my success passes to the city of woe:
From my success passes to eternal pain:
From my success among the people who were lost for the sake.
Justice is the founder of my text
My Promotion had the mission of the divine authority,
Wisdom coordinator, primitive love.
In front of me, it was not things, save things
Eternal and eternal carry.
All hope gives up, you who enter here. “

The light journey is great

Term The light journey is great Depends on a line from John Milton’s poem in 1645, “L’argro”:

“Come, leave it, as you go,
In light of the wonderful toe.
And in your right hand
Mountain NYMPH, Sweet Freedom; “

the a trip to The light journey is great It does not mean “stumbling”, but “dance” or “move”, which was the word The original meaning When it appeared in English for the first time in the fourteenth century. the Wonderful lightHowever, Milton’s invention completely and aims to refer to the fictional movements and the panels made by the divine inspiring dancers – he used it eight years ago in “Comus” (1637), which is the verse of “Musk” responsible also (albeit in A. Road) To say that “every cloud has a silver lining.”

Do not meet Twain (you must meet)

Comment on this TWAIN never meets It indicates that two things of polar antibodies – are different, mutually opposed, to the extent that they will never agree or meet. The phrase is a direct quote from The opening line For Rodiad Kepling “East and West Song” (1889):

“Oh, the east east, and the west in the west, and never meet,
Until the earth and the sky now stand in the seat of God Almighty;
But there is no east or west, or the borders, nor generated, nor birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, they come from the ends of the earth! “

Lesser

It may seem like ancient proverb, but the wide use of the phrase Lesser He is Credit To the poet Robert Browning, who used it in his poem “Andrea del Sarto” (published in 1855):

Whoever seeks – you do not know how others seek
To paint a little of this stain
Passes indifferently with your Erdek standing on his feet, –
However, a much less action, much lower, says someone, says,
(I know his name, regardless) – much less!
Well, less than that, La Crase. “

Best mice and men plans

In addition to giving John Steinbeck Title 1937 novelScottish poet Robert Burns He gave us the phrase The best plans made –Or in his original plan, Plans–Of mice and men In his poem 1785, “To Mouse”:

“But Moses, you are not a lane (not alone) in proving vision may be serious: the best amazing plans, mice” Asian gangs men “, (often descend), nothing but sadness on pain, for joy!”

The phrase has been used since then Remind the proverb Things do not go often to plan.

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