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Source: Porphyria's Lover
Author: Robert Browning
All her hair
In one long yellow string I wound
Three times her little throat around
Context
This line is from the poem "Porphyria's Lover" by Robert Browning (1836).
Take Rapunzel's prince, cross him with a psychotic killer, and you have Porphyria's lover. In Robert Browning's poem of the same name, this man confesses to killing his lady love by choking her to death with her own hair. Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair…so he can strangle you with it. Yikes.
Where you've heard it
You've heard this in a confession by a psychotic killer on trial for choking his girlfriend. If you're hearing this on a date, get out.
Pretentious Factor
If you were to drop this quote at a dinner party, would you get an in-unison "awww" or would everyone roll their eyes and never invite you back? Here it is, on a scale of 1-10.
A 2 on the pretentious meter…a 100 on the crazy meter.