Quote from Coach in The Spy Who Came In for a Cold One
Diane: Excuse me, we are about to make literary history here. Eric Finch: [on the phone] Hello. "My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in the watered shoot;" Diane: Now, that's a poet. Sam: Thank you. Eric Finch: "My heart is like an apple tree Whose bough is bent with thick-set fruit" [Coach joins in] "My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles on a halcyon sea" Coach: "My heart is gladder than all these things Because my love has come to me." The nuns taught us that in school. I get tears just remembering. Carla: No fooling. Tears? Coach: Yeah. They whacked us with their beads.