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> [Under the olive trees, from the ground Grows this flower, which is a wound. It is easier to ignore Than the heroes' sunset fire Of death plunged in their willed desire Raging with flags on the world's shore.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-spender/under-the-olive-trees-from-the-ground-grows-this-flower-which-is-a/)

[Stephen Spender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-spender/)

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## Other authors on Olive

## More by Stephen Spender

> [I think continually of those who were truly great . Who, from the womb, remembered the soul 's history Through corridors of light where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-spender/i-think-continually-of-those-who-were-truly-great-who-from-the-womb/)

[Stephen Spender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-spender/)

> [History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-spender/history-is-the-ship-carrying-living-memories-to-the-future/)

[Stephen Spender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-spender/)

> [All that you can imagine you already know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-spender/all-that-you-can-imagine-you-already-know/)

[Stephen Spender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-spender/)

> [Since we are what we are, what shall we be But what we are? We are, we have Six feet and seventy years, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-spender/since-we-are-what-we-are-what-shall-we-be-but-what-we-are-we-are-we/)

[Stephen Spender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-spender/)

> [One of my great surprises when I was in America was about twenty-five years ago in Harvard, hearing Randall Jarrell deliver a bitter attack…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-spender/one-of-my-great-surprises-when-i-was-in-america-was-about-twenty-five/)

[Stephen Spender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-spender/)

> [What is precious is never to forget, The delight of the blood drawn from ancient springs, Breaking through rocks in worlds before our earth;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-spender/what-is-precious-is-never-to-forget-the-delight-of-the-blood-drawn/)

[Stephen Spender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-spender/)

> [I think continually of those who were truly great.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-spender/i-think-continually-of-those-who-were-truly-great/)

[Stephen Spender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-spender/)

> [If you get to a certain age, all people want to know about you is people you knew. ...An American student once said to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-spender/if-you-get-to-a-certain-age-all-people-want-to-know-about-you-is/)

[Stephen Spender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-spender/)

> [There is a certain justice in criticism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-spender/there-is-a-certain-justice-in-criticism/)

[Stephen Spender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-spender/)

> [Involved in my own entrails and a crust Turning a pitted surface towards a space, I am a world that watches through a sky…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-spender/involved-in-my-own-entrails-and-a-crust-turning-a-pitted-surface/)

[Stephen Spender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-spender/)

> [Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-spender/although-poets-are-vain-and-ambitious-their-vanity-and-ambition-are/)

[Stephen Spender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-spender/)

> [Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-spender/great-poetry-is-always-written-by-somebody-straining-to-go-beyond/)

[Stephen Spender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-spender/)

> [My brothers and sister and I were brought up in an atmosphere which I would describe as 'Puritan decadence'. Puritanism names the behaviour which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-spender/my-brothers-and-sister-and-i-were-brought-up-in-an-atmosphere-which-i/)

[Stephen Spender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-spender/)

> [“Him I delight in accepts joy as joy; He is richened by sorrow as a river by its bends”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-spender/him-i-delight-in-accepts-joy-as-joy-he-is-richened-by-sorrow-as-a/)

[Stephen Spender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-spender/)

> [I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-spender/i-think-of-those-who-were-truly-great-the-names-of-those-who-in-their/)

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