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Last updated on December 23, 2024.

C. Day Lewis

Cecil Day-Lewis, often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Irish-born, British poet and Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake.

English - Poet | April 27, 1904 - May 22, 1972

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We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand. — © C. Day Lewis

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

C. Day Lewis

C. Day Lewis

Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.

C. Day Lewis

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

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

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