Famous quotes containing the words cecil day lewis, day lewis, cecil day, day and/or lewis:
“Wed like to fight but we fear defeat,
Wed like to work but were feeling too weak,
Wed like to be sick but wed get the sack,
Wed like to behave, wed like to believe,
Wed like to love, but weve lost the knack.”
—Cecil Day Lewis (19041972)
“Lips that sealed up the sense from gnawing time
Now beg the favor with a graveyard grin.”
—Cecil Day Lewis (19041972)
“Hunger shall make thy modest zone
And cheat fond death of all but bone”
—Cecil Day Lewis (19041972)
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly until he knows that every day is Doomsday.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocencethe first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.”
—Daniel Day Lewis (b. 1957)