Cecil Day Lewis

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    “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)

    “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)

    “Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.”
    —Agustin Gomez-Arcos (b. 1939)

    “Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.”
    —Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951)