Famous Robert Cecil Day Lewis Quotations

"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."

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by Robert Cecil Day Lewis

"No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?"

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by Robert Cecil Day Lewis

"How selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go."

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by Robert Cecil Day-Lewis