
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. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
Cecil Day-Lewis Quotes (Author of The Otterbury Incident). (2020). Retrieved 27 April 2020, from https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/928.Cecil_Day_Lewis