Day Lewis
Day Lewis
people watches
I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
feelings storm teeth
I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.
serious absurdity
Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
beautiful struggle people
I am more greatly moved by people who struggle to express themselves...I prefer the abstract concept of incoherence in the face of great feeling to beautiful, full sentences that convey little emotion.
doe film spectators
I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.
other-worlds long alive
I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished
renewal stills ireland
Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.
children house recluse
How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?
silence important unsaid
The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.
landscape life-is enriching
I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
inspiration knows capable
Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
filled summer veins washed
Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.
claim english-poet expresses good however pearl
No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?