Edmund Blunden famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Cricket to us was more than play, it was a worship in the summer sun.
-- Edmund Blunden

#Summer #Play #Sun
Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.
-- Edmund Blunden

#Vision #Mastery #Tinkering
I am for the woods against the world, But are the woods for me?
-- Edmund Blunden

#World #Woods

My depth of purse is not so great Nor yet my bibliophilic greed, That merely buying doth elate: The books I buy I like to read: Still e'en when dawdling in a mead, Beneath a cloudless summer sky, By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed, The books I read â€” I like to buy.
I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests.
When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.
The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot. By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.
If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.
If you want something to play with go find yourself a toy, baby, my time is too expensive and I'm not a little boy.
I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
The thing you realize as you get older and you play, that you don't really understand when you're a backup the first few offseasons, how important that mental rest is. It's a grind physically during the season, dealing with the hits and the physical pain that goes with playing in this game. But mentally it's probably more taxing, so you need that ability to find that escape.
Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.
To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists. The planets have the sun, the earth, the moon.

Edmund Blunden famous quotes

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