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Quotes by Robert Cecil 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. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand."
By Robert Cecil Day Lewis
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"No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?"
By Robert Cecil Day Lewis
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