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Cecil Day-Lewis Quotes: Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.
         

Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.


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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.

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



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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.



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High sprits they had: gravity they flouted.



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Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this.



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