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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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Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
— Rupert Brooke
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This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food,…
— Denis Diderot
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Windy or not, a day this beautiful has to be lived. The day is bright and clear, the sky blue, and the…
— Carl Safina
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The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. A companion with whom I…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The deep parts of my life pour onward, as if the river shores were opening out. I feel closer to what language…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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I have an extra set of eyelashes because you never know. I could cry or laugh, or it could be windy, and…
— Niecy Nash
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Second to the right, and straight on till morning.' That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland; but even…
— James M. Barrie
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Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen ; the days and…
— Laurence Sterne
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