"Great poetry is always written by somebody straining……" — Stephen Spender
"Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do."
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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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Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They…
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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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More Always Written Quotes
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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
— George Santayana
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I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.
— Leif Garrett
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Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and…
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.
— Ernest Hemingway
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I have never, for a single moment, been aware of pressure from anyone in television about how I dress, what…
— Anne Robinson
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I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an…
— Herta Muller
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Journalists have always written that my mum said that I punched a hole through my cot when I was three…
— Frank Bruno
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
— Tea Obreht
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I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them…
— Ian Rankin
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I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're…
— Theodore Sturgeon
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It's always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He…
— Nancy Reagan
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I've always written in a free, unencumbered way.
— Joan Armatrading
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