Drink to me only with thine eyes

Cultural  

1. A line from a love poem by the seventeenth-century English poet Ben Jonson. He suggests that lovers find each other's glances so intoxicating that they have no need to drink wine.

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Example Sentences

Go tentpole-wide with “All superheroes wear masks,” or hit the prestige note with something like “Drink to me only with thine eyes.”

From Los Angeles Times

American Ballet Theatre premiered Morris’s “Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes” in 1988, and Taylor created “Company B” in 1991 for the Houston Ballet and his own company.

From Washington Post

Then she accompanied Miss Goodacre, who sang “Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes” in what I considered to be a completely indifferent voice, all the while emoting heavily in Harry’s direction.

From Literature

The luminous Australian dancer Stephanie Williams relishes movement, as she deftly proved in Mark Morris’s “Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes.”

From New York Times

And then there’s “Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes,” a work that shows us — wonderfully — a postmodern view of ballet’s sexism.

From New York Times