Famous quotes containing the words cecil day lewis, cecil day, day and/or lewis:
“Hunger shall make thy modest zone
And cheat fond death of all but bone”
—Cecil Day Lewis (19041972)
“Move then with new desires,
For where we used to build and love
Is no mans land, and only ghosts can live
Between two fires.”
—Cecil Day Lewis (19041972)
“O Paddy dear, an did ye hear the news thats goin round?
The shamrock is by law forbid to grow on Irish ground!
No more Saint Patricks Day well keep, his colour cant be seen,
For theres a cruel law agin the wearin o the Green!”
—Unknown. The Wearing of the Green (l. 3740)
“With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.”
—Percy Wyndham Lewis (18821957)