--- title: "2 Foreign country Quotes By David Lehman" description: "2 Foreign country quotes by David Lehman. Plus more from David Lehman and more Foreign country sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14d/david-lehman-35400_feminism_when-a-woman-loves-a-man-they-have-gone_2148347.jpg" --- > [“When a woman loves a man, they have gone to swim naked in the stream on a glorious July day with the sound of the waterfall like a chuckle of water rushing over smooth rocks, and there is nothing alien…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lehman/when-a-woman-loves-a-man-they-have-gone-to-swim-naked-in-the-stream-2/) [David Lehman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lehman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14d/david-lehman-35400_feminism_when-a-woman-loves-a-man-they-have-gone_2148347.jpg) > [“When she says margarita she means daiquiri. When she says quixotic she means mercurial. And when she says, "I'll never speak to you again," she means, "Put your arms around me from behind as I stand disconsolate at the window."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lehman/when-she-says-margarita-she-means-daiquiri-when-she-says-quixotic-she/) [David Lehman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lehman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c79/david-lehman-35400_best-friend_when-she-says-margarita-she-means-daiqui_2657659.jpg) ## Other authors on Foreign country - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-paulo-coelho-74345.jpg) Paulo Coelho 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/foreign-country/paulo-coelho/) ## More by David Lehman > [Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lehman/poetry-criticism-at-its-worst-today-is-mean-in-spirit-and-spiteful-in/) [David Lehman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lehman/) > [Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lehman/words-can-have-no-single-fixed-meaning-like-wayward-electrons-they/) [David Lehman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lehman/) > [If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lehman/if-you-re-not-paying-for-it-through-the-health-plan-you-pay-for-it-in/) [David Lehman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lehman/) > [The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my admiration is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lehman/the-best-song-lyrics-seem-to-me-so-artful-so-brilliant-so-warm-and/) [David Lehman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lehman/) > [“…When a woman loves a man, they have gone to swim naked in the stream on a glorious July day with the sound of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lehman/when-a-woman-loves-a-man-they-have-gone-to-swim-naked-in-the-stream/) [David Lehman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lehman/) > [I am completing a book I began back in 2002 called 'Poems in the Manner of.' 'The Matador of Metaphor' is from this manuscript.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lehman/i-am-completing-a-book-i-began-back-in-2002-called-poems-in-the/) [David Lehman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lehman/) > [Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lehman/jargon-is-the-verbal-sleight-of-hand-that-makes-the-old-hat-seem/) [David Lehman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lehman/) > [Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lehman/obscurantism-is-the-academic-theorist-s-revenge-on-society-for-having/) [David Lehman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lehman/) > [“When a woman loves a man, they have gone to swim naked in the stream on a glorious July day with the sound of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lehman/when-a-woman-loves-a-man-they-have-gone-to-swim-naked-in-the-stream-2/) [David Lehman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lehman/) > [If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lehman/if-you-have-too-good-a-time-writing-hostile-reviews-you-ll-injure-not/) [David Lehman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lehman/) > [“When she says margarita she means daiquiri. When she says quixotic she means mercurial. And when she says, "I'll never speak to you again,"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lehman/when-she-says-margarita-she-means-daiquiri-when-she-says-quixotic-she/) [David Lehman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lehman/) > [“How like a winter has been my hard spring away from you, my harp. --Psalm”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lehman/how-like-a-winter-has-been-my-hard-spring-away-from-you-my-harp-psalm/) [David Lehman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lehman/) > [There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lehman/there-is-an-air-of-last-things-a-brooding-sense-of-impending/) [David Lehman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lehman/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/foreign-country/david-lehman/#itemlist", "name": "2 Foreign country Quotes By David Lehman", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“When a woman loves a man, they have gone to swim naked in the stream on a glorious July day with the sound of the waterfall like a chuckle of water rushing over smooth rocks, and there is nothing alien in the universe. 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