Stephen Spender Quotes
Who live under the shadow of a war,/ What can I do that matters? - Stephen Spender
When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.
- Stephen Spender
When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, / I was your son, high on your horse, / My mind a top whipped by the lashes / Of your rhetoric, windy of course.
- Stephen Spender
There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.
- Stephen Spender
The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.
- Stephen Spender
Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.
- Stephen Spender
People sometimes divide others into those you laugh at and those you laugh with. The young Auden was someone you could laugh-at-with.
- Stephen Spender
Never allow gradually the traffic to smother with noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.
- Stephen Spender
Moments that can never happen again and never lost their wonder.
- Stephen Spender
I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion.
- Stephen Spender
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