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

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

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

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

- 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.

- Cecil Day-Lewis

High sprits they had: gravity they flouted.

- Cecil Day-Lewis

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

- 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.

- Cecil Day-Lewis

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

- Cecil Day-Lewis