Cecil Day Lewis

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    “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)

    “Nearing again the legendary isle
    Where sirens sang and mariners were skinned,
    We wonder now what was there to beguile
    That such stout fellows left their bones behind.”
    —Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972)

    “The consolations of space are nameless things.
    It was after the neurosis of winter. It was
    In the genius of summer that they blew up
    The statue of Jove among the boomy clouds.
    It took all day to quieten the sky
    And then to refill its emptiness again....”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence—the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.”
    —Daniel Day Lewis (b. 1957)