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)

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

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