Cecil Day Lewis Sayings

#1. So many people are stealing Bikram Yoga. It's like you're practicing medicine, but you're not a doctor.

Bikram Choudhury

#2. My pen is my sword, my faith is my shield, my love is my armour.

Jason J. Black

#3. Is it birthday weather for you, dear soul?
Is it fine your way,
With tall moon-daisies alight, and the mole
Busy, and elegant hares at play
By meadow paths where once you would stroll
In the flush of day?

Cecil Day-Lewis

#4. Love is proved in the letting go.

Cecil Day-Lewis

#5. Greg Ostertag is one of the top centers on this planet!

Bill Walton

#6. When bullying April bruised mine eyes
With sleet-bound appetites and crude
Experiments of green, I still was wise
And kissed the blossoming rod.

Cecil Day-Lewis

#7. The most self confident aces began to wonder when their turn would come.. Faced by the empty chairs of men you had laughed and joked with at lunch. And, miraculously, you were still there. Until tomorrow..

Cecil Lewis

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

Cecil Day-Lewis

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

Cecil Day-Lewis

#10. Well, if you're a mess then I'm a natural disaster."
"The cutest natural disaster I've ever seen.

Kasie West

#11. See this abdicated beast, once king
Of them all, nibble his claws:
Not anger enough left - no, nor despair -
To break his teeth on the bars.

Cecil Day-Lewis

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

Cecil Day-Lewis

#13. The river this November afternoon
Rests in an equipoise of sun and cloud:
A glooming light, a gleaming darkness shroud
Its passage. All seems tranquil, all in tune.

Cecil Day-Lewis

#14. 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 poetry.

Cecil Day-Lewis

#15. In June we picked the clover,
And sea-shells in July:
There was no silence at the door,
No word from the sky.

A hand came out of August
And flicked his life away:
We had not time to bargain, mope,
Moralize, or pray.

Cecil Day-Lewis

#16. 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

#17. How is your father?" she asks disinterestedly.
"A contrivance," I mutter. "A plot device.

Bret Easton Ellis

#18. 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

#19. 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.

Cecil Day-Lewis

#20. I don't write to be understood; I write to understand.

Robert Cecil Day-Lewis

#21. I grew up doing theater when I was very young - always enjoyed it.

Italia Ricci

#22. That distant day had a significance I could not give it then. So we wheeled and came back south towards the city. The Temple of Heaven slipped by underneath, that perfect pattern in its ample park. Then the wide plain ruled to the far horizon. Soon the aerodrome.

Cecil Arthur Lewis

#23. 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

#24. High sprits they had: gravity they flouted.

Cecil Day-Lewis

#25. 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.

Cecil Day-Lewis

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

Cecil Day-Lewis