Famous quotes containing the words cecil day lewis, cecil day and/or day:
“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 (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)
“... the whole day to live through,
steadfast, deep, interior.
After the death,
after the black of black,
this lightness
not to die, not die....”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)