Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
—Stephen Spender
Topics: Confidence, Assurance, Poetry
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
Topics: Wishes
There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife—a tyrannical midwife.
—Stephen Spender
Topics: Criticism
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
Topics: Courage, Bravery, Living
History is the ship carrying living memories to the future
—Stephen Spender
Topics: History
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