Quotes by Laurie Lee - Page 1

In London, Man is the most secret animal on earth.
Laurie Lee / Poet
Men
Animal
Secret
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I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.
Laurie Lee / Poet
Communicate
Talking
Wanted
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We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three.
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Father
Left
Three
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It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me.
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Miracle
Records
Visitation
World
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For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to stay behind and love.
Laurie Lee / Poet
And Love
Easier
Firsts
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That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it.
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Honour
Tragic
Winter
Witness
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I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways.
Laurie Lee / Poet
Innocent
Drove
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I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow.
Laurie Lee / Poet
Shadow
Sitting
Continuous
Variations
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I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.
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Age
Terror
Three
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What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.
Laurie Lee / Poet
Country
Details
Flower
Paint
Teaching
Wild
Flowers
Draw
Eyes
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I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable.
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Expected
Foolhardy
Understood
Shot
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All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged by the spilling of blood.
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Blood
Civilization
Panic
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But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared.
Laurie Lee / Poet
Common
Growing
Kitchen
Married
Ran
Waking
Years
Shared
Spent
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Effie M. was a monster. Six foot high and as strong as a farm horse.No sooner had she decided that she wanted UncleTom than she knocked him off his bicycle and told him.
Laurie Lee / Poet
Feet
Horse
Strong
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Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things
Laurie Lee / Poet
Air
Butterfly
Rain
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Such a morning it is when love leans through geranium windows and calls with a cockerel's tongue. When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass, and the sun drips honey.
Laurie Lee / Poet
Girl
Love
Morning
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At best, love is simply the slipping of a hand in another's, of knowing you are where you belong at last, and of exchanging through the eyes that all-consuming regard which ignores everybody else on earth.
Laurie Lee / Poet
Best Love
Eye
Love Is
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The Welsh are not like any other people in Britain, and they know how separate they are. They are the Celts, the tough little wine-dark race who were the original possessors of the island, who never mixed with the invaders coming later from the east, but were slowly driven into the western mountains.
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Dark
Islands
Wine
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The prospect Smiler was a manic farmer. Few men I think can have been as unfortunate as he; for on the one hand he was a melancholic with a loathing for mankind, on the other, some paralysis had twisted his mouth into a permanent and radiant smile. So everyone he met, being warmed by his smile, would shout him a happy greeting. And beaming upon them with his sunny face he would curse them all to hell.
Laurie Lee / Poet
Men
Hands
Thinking
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In America, even your menus have the gift of language.... The Chef's own Vienna Roast. A hearty, rich meat loaf, gently seasoned to perfection and served in a creamy nest of mashed farm potatoes and strictly fresh garden vegetables. Of course, what you get is cole slaw and a slab of meat, but that doesn't matter because the menu has already started your juices going. Oh, those menus. In America, they are poetry.
Laurie Lee / Poet
Food
Garden
Vegetables
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