Quotes of Confessional - somelinesforyou

“ No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster? ”

- Cecil Day Lewis

“ It's not a how-to-do-it school but more nearly a confessional in which people who have spent their lives at the writing process itemize their failures while clinging to their hopes. ”

- John Ciardi

“ 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
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