10 Cecil Day Lewis Quotes

Cecil Day Lewis quotes

1. Is it birthday weather for you, dear soul? Is it fine your way

2. It's hard to believe a spirit could die Of such generous glow

3. Put out the lights now! Look at the Tree, the rough tree dazzled In oriole plumes of flame, Tinselled with twinkling frost fire, tasselled With stars and moons

4. So feast your eyes now On mimic star and moon-cold bauble: Worlds may wither unseen, But the Christmas Tree is a tree of fable, A phoenix in evergreen

5. Who will say farewell? The beating bell. Will anyone miss me? That I dare not tell - Quick, Rose, and kiss me.

6. Tempt me no more, for I Have known the lightning's hour, The poet's inward pride, The certainty of power.

7. I have had worse partings, but none that so Gnaws at my mind still.

8. They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedom's cause.

9. 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.

10. Nigel's six feet sprawled all over the place; his gestures were nervous and little uncouth; a lock of sandy coloured hair dropping over his forehead, and the deceptive naivete of his face in repose gave him a resemblance to an overgrown prep. schoolboy. His eyes were the same blue as his uncle's, but shortsighted and noncommittal. Yet there was an underlying similarity between the two. A latent, sardonic humor in their conversation, a friendliness and simple generosity in their smiles, and that impression of energy in reserve which is always given by those who possess an abundance of life directed towards consciously-realised aims.