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C. Day Lewis Quotes
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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
Mind
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Down
,
Put
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
Good
,
May
,
Earth
Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.
C. Day Lewis
Heart
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Light
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Her
We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
C. Day Lewis
Understand
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Write
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Order
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Biography
Nationality:
English
Type:
Poet
Born:
April 27
, 1904
Died:
May 22
, 1972
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