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Stephen Spender Quotes: When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.
         

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.


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

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



The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.

The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.



History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.



When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.



I think continually of those who were truly great.

I think continually of those who were truly great.



There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.

There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.



All that you can imagine you already know.

All that you can imagine you already know.



So i learned both to accept myself and to aim beyond myself

So i learned both to accept myself and to aim beyond myself



All the posters on the walls All the leaflets in the streets Are mutilated, destroyed or run in rain, Their words blotted out with tears, Skins peeling from their bodies In the victorious hurricane.

All the posters on the walls All the leaflets in the streets Are mutilated, destroyed or run in rain, Their words blotted out with tears, Skins peeling from their bodies In the victorious hurricane.



There is a certain justice in criticism.

There is a certain justice in criticism.





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