Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Robert Cecil Day Lewis

Robert Cecil Day Lewis


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?

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.