Stephen Spender Quotes
- All one can do is to achieve nakedness, to be what one is with all one's faculties and perceptions, strengthened by all the skill which…
- One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven.…
- There is a certain justice in criticism.
- All that you can imagine you already know.
- Sometimes when I am writing, I am aware of a rhythm, a dance, a fury, which is as yet empty of words.
- Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.