Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
My uncle was famous for his balanced point of view. At the time of which I am writing (when he was nearly… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I am writing, I am aware of a rhythm, a dance, a fury, which is as yet empty of words. — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
An English poet writes, I think, just for people who are interested in poetry. An American poet writes, and feels that everyone… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
What we call the freedom of the individual is not just the luxury of one intellectual to write what he likes to… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
I think continually of those who were truly great . Who, from the womb, remembered the soul 's history Through corridors of light where… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Since we are what we are, what shall we be But what we are? We are, we have Six feet and seventy years, to… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
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… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
What is precious is never to forget, The delight of the blood drawn from ancient springs, Breaking through rocks in worlds before our earth;… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
If you get to a certain age, all people want to know about you is people you knew. ...An American student once said to… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Involved in my own entrails and a crust Turning a pitted surface towards a space, I am a world that watches through a sky… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
