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C. Day Lewis Quotes

C. Day Lewis quotes

English Poet April 27, 1904 – May 22, 1972

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I see you have the advantage of me,' he said. 'Very well. I'll make it as brief as I can. I'll tell you the plain facts and I only hope you won't draw the wrong conclusions from them. George Rattery had been making advances to my wife for some time. She was amused, intrigued, gratified by it - any woman might be, you know; George was a handsome brute, in his way. She may even have carried on a harmless flirtation with him. I did not remonstrate with her: if one is afraid to trust one's... C. Day Lewis
this self, contains. Tide continents and stars - a myriad selves, Is small and solitary as one grass-blade. Passed over by the wind. Amongst a myriad grasses on the prairie C. Day Lewis
C. Day Lewis quote: "Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed..."
Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon. C. Day Lewis
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
C. Day Lewis quote: "We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order..."
We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand. C. Day Lewis
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
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. C. Day Lewis

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