Famous quotes containing the words cecil day lewis, cecil day, day and/or lewis:
“Wed like to fight but we fear defeat,
Wed like to work but were feeling too weak,
Wed like to be sick but wed get the sack,
Wed like to behave, wed like to believe,
Wed like to love, but weve lost the knack.”
—Cecil Day Lewis (19041972)
“They who in folly or mere greed
Enslaved religion, markets, laws,
Borrow our language now and bid
Us to speak up in freedoms cause.”
—Cecil Day Lewis (19041972)
“All day Ive built
a lifetime and now
the sun sinks to
undo it.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.”
—Wyndham Lewis (18821957)