C. Day Lewis Quotes

I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.

I like to learn about things.

I became conflicted in my late teens.

I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.

I like to cook things very slowly.

Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.

I broke things to get attention.

I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.

God knows, I haven't always been successful.

Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.

I'm not actually a big musical fan.

It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.

I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father...

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

See this abdicated beast, once kingOf them all, nibble his claws:Not anger enough left—no, nor despair—To break his teeth on the bars.

The river this November afternoonRests in an equipoise of sun and cloud:A glooming light, a gleaming darkness shroudIts passage. All seems tranquil, all in tune.

And yet this self, containsTides, continents and stars―a myriad selves, Is small and solitary as one grass-bladePassed over by the windAmongst a myriad grasses on the prairie.

poetry is not—except in a very limited sense—a form of self-expression. Who on earth supposes that the pearl expresses the oyster?