Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
"Sir Stephen Harold Spender" Order of British Empire/CBE was an English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work. He was appointed the seventeenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress/Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress/United States Library of Congress in 1965.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous poets! More Stephen Spender on Wikipedia.People sometimes divide others into those you laugh at and those you laugh with. The young Auden was someone you could laugh-at-with.
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.
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.
When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.
Moments that can never happen again and never lost their wonder.
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.
Who live under the shadow of a war,/ What can I do that matters?
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.
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