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Cecil Day-Lewis Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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

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



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

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



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.



Love is proved in the letting go.

Love is proved in the letting go.



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.

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.



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

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



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.

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.



High sprits they had: gravity they flouted.

High sprits they had: gravity they flouted.



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

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



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

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





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Still as On windless nights The moon-cast shadows are, So still will be my heart when I Am dead.

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This page presents the quote "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.". Author of this quote is Cecil Day-Lewis. This quote is about feet, affection, miracle, hands, air, alive, lying, love, flying,.