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 Quotes
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
 Dreams

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History is the ship carrying living memories to the future - Stephen Spender Quotes

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future

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

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

Stephen Spender

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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 Quotes

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.

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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 Quotes

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.

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 Dreams
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 Quotes

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.

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 Age And Aging
People sometimes divide others into those you laugh at and those you laugh with. The young Auden was someone you could laugh-at-with. - Stephen Spender Quotes

People sometimes divide others into those you laugh at and those you laugh with. The young Auden was someone you could laugh-at-with.

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 People
Moments that can never happen again and never lost their wonder. - Stephen Spender Quotes

Moments that can never happen again and never lost their wonder.

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

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

Stephen Spender

 Chaos English Poet
Who live under the shadow of a war,/ What can I do that matters? - Stephen Spender Quotes

Who live under the shadow of a war,/ What can I do that matters?

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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 Quotes

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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