plate quotes

Like the silver plate on a coffin.

-John Philpot Curran
Of Sir Robert Peel's smile. Quoted by Daniel O'Connell in the House of Commons, 26 Feb1835.

No one can read a poem unless he realises that it is a physical object as well as an abstract vehicle for conveying ideas. A poem has a material existence like a piece of music or sculpture or a plate of meat.

- George Mann MacBeth
  Introduction to Poetry1900 to1965.

And she, being old, fed from a mashed plate as an old mare might droop across a fence to the dull pastures of her ignorance. Her husband held her upright while he prayed to God who is all-forgiving to send down some angel somewhere who might land perhaps in his foreign wings among the gradual crops. She munched, half dead, blindly searching the spoon.

-A'Ghobhainn
Thistles and Roses,'OldWoman', stanzas1^2.

Myadvicetoyou isnottoinquire whyor whither, but just enjoy your ice-creamwhileit's onyour plate,that'smy philosophy.

-Thornton Niven Wilder
  The Skin of OurTeeth, act1.