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C. Day Lewis Quotes

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

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Type:
Poet Quotes
Category:
English Poet Quotes
Date of Birth:
April 27, 1904
Date of Death:
May 22, 1972
Nationality:
English
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
John Keats
William Wordsworth
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
W. H. Auden
John Milton
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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