18 Quotes by Cecil Day-Lewis

"There’s a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man."

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"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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"Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this."

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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 seems deceit."

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

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

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"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."

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"High sprits they had: gravity they flouted."

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