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Discover Cecil Day-Lewis famous and rare quotes. Share Cecil Day-Lewis quotations about poetry, flight and lying. "We do not write in order to be..."
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13 quotes from Cecil Day-Lewis: 'First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it.
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Tempt Me No More
1. Tempt me no more, for I Have known the lightning's hour, The poet's inward pride, The certainty of power.
From Feathers to Iron
1. Do not expect again the phoenix hour, The triple-towered sky, the dove's complaining, Sudden the rain of gold and heart's first ease Traced under trees by the eldritch light of sundown.
Thou Shell of Death
1. Using the pseudonym Nicholas Blake 1. 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 naïveté 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...
"The image," says C. Day Lewis in The Poetic Image, "is a method of asserting or reasserting spiritual control over the material." And he makes a very suggestive definition of what the critics have...
Sourced quotations by the English Poet Cecil Day Lewis (1904 — 1972) about love, tree and science. Enjoy the best Cecil Day Lewis quotes and picture quotes!
Cecil Day-Lewis has two contrasting claims on our attention. The first is as an archetypal poet of the 1930s, the first-born, last-named member of the Auden/Spender/Day-Lewis triad, and the only one of those three friends whose commitment to Marxism extended to joining and working for the Communist…
Aug 17, 2023 · “First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.” ― Cecil Day Lewis. tags: writing. Read more quotes from Cecil Day-Lewis. Share this quote:
Nov 28, 2023 · “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 Quotes #Giving Quotes #Flying Quotes. “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.”
