Famous quotes containing the words cecil 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)
“Hunger shall make thy modest zone
And cheat fond death of all but bone”
—Cecil Day Lewis (19041972)
“Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)
“Hunger shall make thy modest zone
And cheat fond death of all but bone”
—Cecil Day Lewis (19041972)