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Stephen Spender has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people…
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I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad…
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Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by…
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The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The…
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When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.
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When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped…
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I think continually of those who were truly great...Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun, and left…
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Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious…
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You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are…
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There was a pause, static, a muttered "Give me that," by an indignant female. Then the normally quiet reserved Ashlyn was demanding,…
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It is my indignant opinion that 90 percent of the moving pictures exhibited in America are so vulgar, witless and dull that…
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The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.
— H. L. Mencken
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Capablanca used to talk calmly and moderately about everything. However, when our conversation turned to the problems of the battle for the…
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