Cecil Day-Lewis famous quotes

03-24-2025

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
-- Cecil Day-Lewis

#Writing #Order #Understood
The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.
-- Cecil Day-Lewis

#Art #Poetry #Reign
To travel like a bird, lightly to view | Deserts where stone gods founder in the sand, | Ocean embraced in a white sleep with land; | To escape time, always to start anew... | Hooded by a dark sense of destination... | Travelers, we're fabric of the road we go; We settle, but like feathers on time's flow.
-- Cecil Day-Lewis

#Ocean #Sleep #Dark
Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.
-- Cecil Day-Lewis

#Summer #Lying #Past
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 exist till they are born â€¦ in poetry.
-- Cecil Day-Lewis

#Way #Using Words #Born
Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this.
-- Cecil Day-Lewis

#Space #Giving #Flying
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.
-- Cecil Day-Lewis

#Lying #Air #Hands
High sprits they had: gravity they flouted.
-- Cecil Day-Lewis

#Aviation #Gravity
There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.
-- Cecil Day-Lewis

#Goodbye #Men #Good Bye
Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go.
-- Cecil Day-Lewis

#Love #Letting Go #Walking Away
Love is proved in the letting go.
-- Cecil Day-Lewis

#Letting Go #Best Love #Love Is

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