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)

    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)

    I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.
    Jerome Cady, U.S. screenwriter, and Lewis Milestone. Captain Ross (Dana Andrews)