Cecil Day Lewis quotes

" We'd like to fight but we fear defeat, we'd like to work but we're feeling too weak, we'd like to be sick but we'd get the sack, we'd like to behave, we'd like to believe, we'd like to love, but we've lost the knack. " # Resignation # Love # Fear

" We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand. " # Writers and Writing

" Is it birthday weather for you, dear soul? Is it fine your way " # Weather # Love # Happiness

" It's hard to believe a spirit could die Of such generous glow " # Death and Dying # Belief # Spirit and Spirituality

" Put out the lights now! Look at the Tree, the rough tree dazzled In oriole plumes of flame, Tinselled with twinkling frost fire, tasselled With stars and moons " # Humankind # Love # Action

" So feast your eyes now On mimic star and moon-cold bauble: Worlds may wither unseen, But the Christmas Tree is a tree of fable, A phoenix in evergreen " # Libraries # Christmas # Moon

" Who will say farewell? The beating bell. Will anyone miss me? That I dare not tell - Quick, Rose, and kiss me. " # Farewells # Love # Courage

" Tempt me no more, for I Have known the lightning's hour, The poet's inward pride, The certainty of power. " # Poetry and Poets # Pride # Choice

" I have had worse partings, but none that so Gnaws at my mind still. " # Life and Living # Women # Passion

" 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. " # Freedom # Religion # Language