C. Day Lewis Quotes

C. Day Lewis
English Poet
Born: Apr 27, 1904
Died: May 22, 1972
Clear Down First Mind Sit Write
Related authors: Alexander Pope Alfred Lord Tennyson John Keats John Milton Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert Browning William Blake William Wordsworth
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 Earth Claim Would Poem Self-Expression However May Just Who Expresses Pearl
We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand. C. Day Lewis
Write Understand Understood Order

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