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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? "
Cecil Day LewisQuite an intriguing image, and an image relevant to all creative output. Thank you for the quote and the birthday post!
Your post made me look into C Day-Lewis's life. Father of actor Daniel Day-Lewis; at one point lover of Rosamund Lehmann of the Bloomsbury circle; member of the communist party in the 1930s, then critic of Stalinist policies; appointed Poet Laureate because his poems were re-assuringly boring ...
Connections, connections, connections.
I am sure that for a lengthy period C Day-Lewis featured prominently in public life, but all that was well before my time and I know very little about him.
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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? "
~ Cecil Day-Lewis, born today, 1904.