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- Nov 07, 2020
Casket Quotes
Words spoken at the edge of a goodbye.
A casket shows up in these quotes as more than furniture for a funeral - it's a songwriter's grief, a poet's metaphor for meter enclosing thought, and even, oddly, a convention sponsor's name.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played a funeral convention once. York Casket Company pays well, in case anyone's wondering!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was carrying my friend in his casket to put him in the hearse, and I was thinking, 'I need to write a song for this guy, because he always told me I would have a No. 1 song.'
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