Famous quotes containing the words cecil day lewis, cecil day, day and/or lewis:
“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 (1904–1972)
“Move then with new desires,
For where we used to build and love
Is no man’s land, and only ghosts can live
Between two fires.”
—Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972)
“Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember.”
—Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] (70–19 B.C.)
“He’s one of those know-it-all types that, if you flatter the wig off him, he chatter like a goony bird at mating time.”
—Michael Blankfort. Lewis Milestone. Johnson (Reginald Gardner)