Laurie Lee: Course

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“These poems were written by someone I once was and who is so distant to me now that I scarcely recognize him anymore. They speak for a time and a feeling which of course has gone from me but for which I still have a close affection and kinship.”

Preface to Selected Poems, André Deutsch Ltd, London, 1983, ISBN 0233975039
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“She is of course just an ordinary miracle, but is also the particular late wonder of my life.”

The Firstborn, p. 77.
I Can't Stay Long (1975)

“This London, of course, with its hollow, drum-like name, is neither England nor abroad but something on its own, a walled fantasy of remembered tales.”

Eight-Year-Old World, p. 26.
I Can't Stay Long (1975)

“Of course, there is one great virtue in size; and of course, London is the greatest show on earth, for never have so many human characters been gathered together in one place. Here, in a day, you can see the world. Stand at the entrance to a main-line railway station, during the rush-hour, and you see every possible human species scurrying past. One becomes amazed and transported by the multiplicity of the human face, by its infinite differences, by its almost prismatic graduations from ugliness to beauty, evil to good.”

An Obstinate Exile, p. 45.
I Can't Stay Long (1975)