He could quote T. S. Eliot or Tennyson or Kipling, and discuss history or astronomy like an Ivy League professor.

Better to have loved and lost, Kirk thought, quoting Tennyson.

The title page contains the following quotation from Tennyson, since it "amused" Crowley to quote Tennyson:

And don't quote Tennyson at me.

Miller quoted Tennyson in describing Coolbrith as "divinely tall, and most divinely fair".

"Don't change the subject while I'm quoting Tennyson."

In response to Chaz's limp enquiry about what happens next, the veteran quotes Tennyson: "Nature, red in tooth and claw."

You expect someone to get up and quote Tennyson, but it's better in a musical sense.

For most of his life, he quoted Dryden and Swift, Browning and Tennyson without effort.

And Austin, by the way, isn't really a dumb jock but a closet poet who quotes Tennyson.