Clouds Quote 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…

— Stephen Spender

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

— Stephen Spender

All that you can imagine you already know.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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;…

— Stephen Spender

I think continually of those who were truly great.

— 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…

— Stephen Spender

There is a certain justice in criticism.

— 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…

— 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…

— Stephen Spender

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

— Stephen Spender