"If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed…" — Stephen Spender
"If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed 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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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 you get to a certain age, all people want to know about you is people you knew. ...An American…
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More Bleed Quotes
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one of 407 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any…
— Isaac Asimov
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
— Honore de Balzac
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In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is…
— Aberjhani
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So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart…
— Hernando Cortes
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You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn,…
— Alanis Morissette
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You gonna do somethin'? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?
— Wyatt Earp
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A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill…
— Bruce Lee
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If you keep picking a scab it will bleed and never heal. If you keep dragging the pain of the…
— Leon Brown
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Sweat more during peace: bleed less during war
— Sun Tzu
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I ain't got time to bleed.
— Jesse Ventura
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For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray [sic] days where…
— Augusten Burroughs
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It's just I might get distracted, and I get lost kind of easily, and sometimes I have really bad days...when,…
— Neil Gaiman
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