C. Day Lewis Professions : Poet Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by C. Day Lewis Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon. C. Day Lewis herveinslightsummerheart 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 needdownsomethingmind 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 justwhogoodearth We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand. C. Day Lewis writeunderstandunderstoodorder Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poetAll Authors
