Famous quotes containing the words cecil day lewis, cecil day and/or day:
“It is the logic of our times,
No subject for immortal verse—
That we who lived by honest dreams
Defend the bad against the worse.”
—Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972)
“They who in folly or mere greed
Enslaved religion, markets, laws,
Borrow our language now and bid
Us to speak up in freedom’s cause.”
—Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972)
“I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)