C. Day Lewis Quotes
A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.
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We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.
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I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
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If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
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I really like the way Fox handles their shows.
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I'm putting myself out there in a way I don't know if I ever have before.
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I started gigging when I was about 16, and I was way too young to be in the clubs.
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It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.
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Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well.
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My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.
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I just want to continue the way I am going.
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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
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Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.
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What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.
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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
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The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.
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My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with her, teaching her to tie her shoelaces on her own, drilling multiplication tables with Cindy, practicing piano every day with her. No one expected Cindy to get a Ph.D.! But my mom wanted her to be the best she could be, within her limits.
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At a certain age, you have to choose between your face and your ass.
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I changed my hopes to being a singer when I was a child and sat around with my hair in my face droning Mac Davis songs. Writing was sort of a last stand. Come to think of it, it was the only "talent" I had that anyone asked for more of.
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Seawoll sat in the executive leather operator’s chair behind the desk wearing a dangerously stretched noddy suit that made him look like the Michelin Man’s slightly deflated older brother.
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A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.
