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.
It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative leap from… - Cecil Day-Lewis
It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative leap from…
- Cecil Day-Lewis
Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go. - Cecil Day-Lewis
Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go.
There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man. - Cecil Day-Lewis
There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.
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
Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.
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
Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this.
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 po… - Cecil Day-Lewis
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 po…
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
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.
High sprits they had: gravity they flouted. - Cecil Day-Lewis
High sprits they had: gravity they flouted.
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,… - Cecil Day-Lewis
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,…
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