Quotes of Stephen Spender - somelinesforyou

“ History is the ship carrying living memories to the future. ”

- Stephen Spender

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

- Stephen Spender

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

- Stephen Spender

“ I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center. ”

- Stephen Spender

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

- Stephen Spender

“ I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center. ”

- Stephen Spender

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

- Stephen Spender

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

- Stephen Spender

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

- Stephen Spender

“ I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center. ”

- Stephen Spender

“ I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center. ”

- Stephen Spender

“ 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. ”

- Stephen Spender

“ 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. ”

- Stephen Spender

“ History is the ship carrying living memories to the future. ”

- Stephen Spender

“ Never allow gradually the traffic to smother with noise and fog the flowering of the spirit. ”

- Stephen Spender

“ I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center. ”

- Stephen Spender

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

- Stephen Spender

“ But reading is not idleness... it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless. It is the immortal spirit of the dead realised within the bodies of the living. It is sacramental. ”

- Stephen Spender

“ History is the ship carrying living memories to the future. ”

- Stephen Spender

“ But reading is not idleness... it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless. It is the immortal spirit of the dead realised within the bodies of the living. It is sacramental. ”

- Stephen Spender

“ History is the ship carrying living memories to the future. ”

- Stephen Spender

“ History is the ship carrying living memories to the future. ”

- Stephen Spender

“ I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center. ”

- Stephen Spender

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

- Stephen Spender

“ 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. ”

- Stephen Spender

“ 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. ”

- Stephen Spender

“ History is the ship carrying living memories to the future. ”

- Stephen Spender

“ History is the ship carrying living memories to the future. ”

- Stephen Spender

“ History is the ship carrying living memories to the future. ”

- Stephen Spender

“ Born of the sun they travelled a short while towards the sun And left the vivid air signed with their honour. ”

- Stephen Spender
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