5 Quotes by C. Day Lewis

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    A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.

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    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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    We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

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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.

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