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C. Day Lewis Quotes

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: english
Birth: April 27, 1904 - May 22, 1972

Topics

Good Earth Oyster May Claim Just

A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

Death Man Story Tragedy Now High

In life and in politics, it's helpful to try to perceive the other person through the most generous lens.

Life Politics Person Lens Try Most

Meditation is about getting to a place where you're approaching things in a more calm, centering place rather than allowing yourself to get caught up in it.

Yourself Calm You Meditation Place

I'd been going to college for nine years, and before I completed my dissertation, I quit.

Robert Weinberg

College Quit Years Going Been Nine

My whole career this is the biggest failure financially, but at the same time, it's one of my favorite things I've ever done.

Failure Time Career Done Same Whole

I'm away about six months of the year, competing here in the U.K. or in training camps in Arizona, Ethiopia, the Pyrenees.

Training Year Competing Here Arizona

My personal style is kind of random; it's always changing - I'm a Pisces! Sometimes I like one particular style for a season, and the next season I will dress totally different.

Style Dress Random Sometimes Kind

I am the lead on NBC's 'Siberia,' and I loved that experience.

Experience I Am Loved Lead Siberia

I think when it comes to decisions, I try not to be emotional. To drown out the noise and look at the important facts.

Think Facts Decisions Look Important

Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz, bluegrass and country musicians. It has a rhythmic vocabulary that's been used by rock n' roll. It's related to spirituals, and even the American fiddle tradition.

Wynton Marsalis

Music American Musicians Tradition

Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

Strong Nobody Anything Foolish Some

It used to be that we imagined that our mobile phones would be for us to talk to each other. Now, our mobile phones are there to talk to us.

Now Talk Phones Used Us Mobile

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