Cecil Day-Lewis Quotes
- Love is proved in the letting go.
- Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go.
- There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.
- We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
- High sprits they had: gravity they flouted.
- We who fly do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and…
- Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this.
- A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not…
- Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.
- To travel like a bird, lightly to view | Deserts where stone gods founder in the sand, | Ocean embraced in a white sleep with…