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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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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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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Remember what I told you about the blues? If you're not risking nothing, neither would they.
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A court which yields to the popular will thereby licenses itself to practice despotism, for there can be no assurance that it will not on another occasion indulge its own will.
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Imagination is the manipulation of images in one's head... the rational manipulation... as well as the literary and artistic manipulation.
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It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.
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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.
