Cecil Day Lewis

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    Hunger shall make thy modest zone
    And cheat fond death of all but bone—
    Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972)

    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)

    Truly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.
    Bible: New Testament, Matthew 10:15.

    Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
    —Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951)