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Cecil Day-Lewis Quotes: "Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go."

Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go.



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

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 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."

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 Quotes: "Love is proved in the letting go."

Love is proved in the letting go.




Cecil Day-Lewis Quotes: "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 … in poetry."

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 … in poetry.



Cecil Day-Lewis Quotes: "A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen."

A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.



Cecil Day-Lewis Quotes: "They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedom's cause."

They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedom's cause.




Cecil Day-Lewis Quotes: "High sprits they had: gravity they flouted."

High sprits they had: gravity they flouted.



Cecil Day-Lewis Quotes: "Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this."

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 Quotes: "The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead."

The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.



Cecil Day-Lewis Quotes: "See this abdicated beast, once kingOf them all, nibble his claws:Not anger enough left—no, nor despair—To break his teeth on the bars."

See this abdicated beast, once kingOf them all, nibble his claws:Not anger enough left—no, nor despair—To break his teeth on the bars.



Cecil Day-Lewis Quotes: "The river this November afternoonRests in an equipoise of sun and cloud:A glooming light, a gleaming darkness shroudIts passage. All seems tranquil, all in tune."

The river this November afternoonRests in an equipoise of sun and cloud:A glooming light, a gleaming darkness shroudIts passage. All seems tranquil, all in tune.




Cecil Day-Lewis Quotes: "And yet this self, containsTides, continents and stars―a myriad selves, Is small and solitary as one grass-bladePassed over by the windAmongst a myriad grasses on the prairie."

And yet this self, containsTides, continents and stars―a myriad selves, Is small and solitary as one grass-bladePassed over by the windAmongst a myriad grasses on the prairie.



Cecil Day-Lewis Quotes: "poetry is not—except in a very limited sense—a form of self-expression. Who on earth supposes that the pearl expresses the oyster?"

poetry is not—except in a very limited sense—a form of self-expression. Who on earth supposes that the pearl expresses the oyster?