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Stephen Spender Quotes

Type:
Poet Quotes
Category:
English Poet Quotes
Date of Birth:
September 28, 1909
Date of Death:
July 16, 1995
Nationality:
English
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Stephen Spender

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Alexander Pope
W. H. Auden
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
John Dryden
Edward Young
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Herbert Read

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

Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.
Stephen Spender

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

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.
Stephen Spender

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


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