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C. Day Lewis [1904-1972] English
Rank: 107
Poet


Cecil Day-Lewis CBE was an Anglo-Irish poet and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake.

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Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.
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No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster? Good
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We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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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.
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