"Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity……" — 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 accepted for what they altimately are as revealed in their poetry."
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26 Quotes by Stephen Spender
Stephen Spender has 26 quotes on this site.
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When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a…
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The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations…
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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…
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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,…
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Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God…
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There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife — a tyrannical midwife.
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The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal…
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I think continually of those who were truly great.
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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who…
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So i learned both to accept myself and to aim beyond myself
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If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.
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If you get to a certain age, all people want to know about you is people you knew. ...An American…
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In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans,…
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Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his…
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In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
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I like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm…
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In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build…
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
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I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.
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In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.
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