Cecil Day Lewis

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    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)

    Move then with new desires,
    For where we used to build and love
    Is no man’s land, and only ghosts can live
    Between two fires.
    Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972)

    A day for toil, an hour for sport,
    But for a friend is life too short.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.
    —Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957)