Cecil Day-Lewis

Quotes

• “Tempt me no more, for IHave known the lightning's hour,The poet's inward pride,The certainty of power.”
• “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.”
• “They who in folly or mere greedEnslaved religion, markets, laws,Borrow our language now and bidUs to speak up in freedom's cause.”
• “It is the logic of our times,No subject for immortal verse—That we who lived by honest dreamsDefend the bad against the worse.”
• “Is it birthday weather for you, dear soul?Is it fine your way”
• “It's hard to believe a spirit could dieOf such generous glow”

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