Famous quotes containing the words cecil day lewis, cecil day, day and/or lewis:
“We’d like to fight but we fear defeat,
We’d like to work but we’re feeling too weak,
We’d like to be sick but we’d get the sack,
We’d like to behave, we’d like to believe,
We’d like to love, but we’ve lost the knack.”
—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)
“All day I’ve built
a lifetime and now
the sun sinks to
undo it.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.”
—Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957)