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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'Polytechnique' changed everything in my way of working. I became an adult, really, during those five years. I didn't work on anything else but 'Polytechnique.'
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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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Bad ages to live through are good ages to learn from.
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Play, Incorporating Animistic and Magical Thinking Is Important Because It:
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I don't investigate things by writing about them, but let them build up inside of me.
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Our days and nights have sorrows woven with delights.
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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.
