C. Day Lewis Quotes

"We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand."
- C. Day Lewis
(Related: Order)

"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
(Related: First, Mind)

"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
(Related: Earth, May, Self)