C. Day Lewis Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by 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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/c-day-lewis-quotes/#cacdb6d3

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/c-day-lewis-quotes/#ab535562

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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/c-day-lewis-quotes/#1bfcad21

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/c-day-lewis-quotes/#cf013c06

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