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Laurie Lee quotes

English Poet June 26, 1914 – May 13, 1997

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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
Laurie Lee quote: "For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to..."
For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to stay behind and love. Laurie Lee
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
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. Laurie Lee
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
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
Here I discovered water? a very different element from the green crawling scum that stank in the garden tub. You could pump it in pure blue gulps out of the ground, you could swing on the pump handle and it came out sparkling like liquid sky. And it broke and ran and shone on the tiled floor, or quivered in a jug, or weighted your clothes with cold. You could drink it, draw with it, froth it with soap, swim beetles across it, or fly it in bubbles in the air. You could put your head in it, and... Laurie Lee
...country schooling was little more than a cane-wacking interlude in which boys picked up facts like bruises and the girls scarcely counted at all... Laurie Lee
Laurie Lee quote: "God's codpiece, you're very kind"
God's codpiece, you're very kind Laurie Lee
Laurie Lee quote: "We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was..."
We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three. Laurie Lee
Laurie Lee quote: "I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the..."
I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow. Laurie Lee
Laurie Lee quote: "That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal..."
That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it. Laurie Lee
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. Laurie Lee
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. Laurie Lee
I felt once again the unease of arriving at night in an unknown city--that faint sour panic which seems to cling to a place until one has found oneself a bed. Laurie Lee

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