(5 quotes found)
“No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?”
C. Day Lewis
“There's not a nook within this solemn pass/ But were an apt confessional for one/ Taught by his summer spent, his autumn gone,/ That life is but a tale of morning grass/ Withered at eve.”
William Wordsworth
“Frankly I'm not holding my breath for any confessional statement from Saddam Hussein,”
Jack Straw
“I think we're in the twilight zone. You have the confessional period followed by the summer doldrums, so there really isn't anything that's going to spur it to the upside.”
Larry Wachtel
“We've known for a while that we are going to have long lines at the confessional booth and long faces through third-quarter earnings season. I just think that a lot of the pessimism right now seems overblown.”
Paul McManus
