"We who fly do so for the love……" — Cecil Day-Lewis
"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 beneath our feet."
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Cecil Day-Lewis
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11 Quotes by Cecil Day-Lewis
Cecil Day-Lewis has 11 quotes on this site.
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Love is proved in the letting go.
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Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go.
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There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.
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We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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High sprits they had: gravity they flouted.
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Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life…
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A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which…
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Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age…
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To travel like a bird, lightly to view | Deserts where stone gods founder in the sand, | Ocean embraced…
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They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak…
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More Air Quotes
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It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then…
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Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of…
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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
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Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.
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I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into…
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
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