We are delightfully trapped by our memories. I can't drink a bottle of Chateauneuf-du-Pape Vieux Telegraphe without revisiting a hotel bistro in Luzerne, Switzerland, where I ate a large bowl of a peppery Basque baby goat stew. A sip and a bite. A bite and sip. Goose bumps come with the divine conjunction of food and wine. Jim Harrison
I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.
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William Shakespeare
Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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W.b. Yeats
Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.
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Paulo Coelho
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
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W.C. Fields
I am not sure I trust you."" You can trust me with your life, My King.""But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back.
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Megan Whalen Turner
More Quotes By Jim Harrison
His own life suddenly seemed repellently formal. Whom did he know or what did he know and whom did he love? Sitting on the stump under the burden of his father's death and even the mortality inherent in the dying, wildly colored canopy of leaves,...
Perhaps swimming was dancing under the water, he thought. To swim under lily pads seeing their green slender stalks wavering as you passed, to swim under upraised logs past schools of sunfish and bluegills, to swim through reed beds past wriggling water snakes and miniature...
Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.
Wherever we go we do harm, forgivingourselves as wheels do cement for wearingeach other out. We set this houseon fire, forgetting that we live within.(from "To a Meadowlark, " for M.L. Smoker)
A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.
