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C. Day Lewis Quotes
Page 1 of 1C. Day Lewis
April 27, 1904 - May 22, 1972
Nationality: English
Category: Poet
Subcategory: English Poet
|  Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon. | | 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. | | We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand. | | No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster? |
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