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Stephen Spender - From the Achievement category:
All one can do is to achieve nakedness, to be what one is with all one's faculties and perceptions, strengthened by all the skill which one can acquire. And then to stand before the judgement of time. (Stephen Spender)
Stephen Spender - From the Aging category:
I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion. (Stephen Spender)
Stephen Spender - From the Chaos category:
When you read and understand a poem, then you master chaos a little. (Stephen Spender)
Stephen Spender - From the Concentration category:
One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven. Thus genius works in different ways to achieve its ends. (Stephen Spender)
Stephen Spender - From the Criticism category:
There is a certain justice in criticism. (Stephen Spender)
Stephen Spender - From the Critics category:
The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife. (Stephen Spender)
Stephen Spender - From the Environment category:
Never to allow gradually the traffic to smother / With noise and fog the flowering of the spirit. (Stephen Spender)
Stephen Spender - From the Expectation category:
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)
Stephen Spender - From the Greatness category:
I think continually of those who were truly great / ...Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun, / And left the vivid air signed with their honor. (Stephen Spender)
Stephen Spender - From the Imagination category:
All that you can imagine you already know. (Stephen Spender)
Stephen Spender - From the Memory category:
History is the ship carrying living memories into the future. (Stephen Spender)
Stephen Spender - From the Poetry category:
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. (Stephen Spender)
Stephen Spender - From the Religion category:
Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun. (Stephen Spender)
Stephen Spender - From the Windows category:
Unless, governor, teacher inspector, visitor, /
This map becomes their window and these windows / That open on their lives like crouching tombs / Break, O break open...' (Stephen Spender)
Stephen Spender - From the Writing category:
Sometimes when I am writing, I am aware of a rhythm, a dance, a fury, which is as yet empty of words. (Stephen Spender)
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