C. Day Lewis Quotes

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.
C. Day Lewis

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
C. Day Lewis

Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.
C. Day Lewis

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

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C. Day Lewis Quotes

Type: Poet Quotes Category: English Poet Quotes Date of Birth: April 27, 1904 Date of Death: May 22, 1972 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: C. Day Lewis Related Authors: John Keats Alfred Lord Tennyson Alexander Pope Robert Browning William Wordsworth Elizabeth Barrett Browning John Milton W. H. Auden Percy Bysshe Shelley	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. C. Day Lewis No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster? C. Day Lewis Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon. C. Day Lewis We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand. C. Day Lewis