Laurie Lee's Quotes
Born: 1914-06-26
Profession: Poet
Nation: English
Biography of Laurie Lee
I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways.
Tags: Days, Innocent, WaysI have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow.
Tags: Light, Shadow, SinceIt was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me.
Tags: Miracle, Visitation, WantedThat last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it.
Tags: Last, Personal, StoryWe were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three.
Tags: Father, Living, RoadBut 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.
Tags: Away, Life, MarriedI 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.
Tags: Done, Moment, SomeoneWhat 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.
Tags: Country, Life, Poetry