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Favorite Stephen Spender Quotes

1. "When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little." ~ Stephen Spender
2. "Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted for what they altimately are as revealed in their poetry." ~ Stephen Spender
3. "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
4. "Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do." ~ Stephen Spender
5. "All that you can imagine you already know" ~ Stephen Spender
6. "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
7. "Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself." ~ Stephen Spender
8. "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
9. "Never to allow gradually the traffic to smother / With noise and fog the flowering of the spirit." ~ Stephen Spender
10. "Near the snow,near the sun , in the highest fieldSee how those names are feted by the wavering grass,And by the streamers of white cloud,And whispers of wind in the listening sky;The names of those who in their lives have fought for life,Who wore at their hearts the fire's centre.Born of the sun they traveled a short while towrads the sun.And left the vivid air signed with their honour." ~ Stephen Spender

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For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives us into the heart of God. Without mercy our darkness would plunge us into despair - for some, self-destruction. Time alone with God reveals the unfathomable depths of the poverty of the spirit. We are so poor that even our poverty is not our own: It belongs to the mysterium tremendum of a loving God."
Author: Brennan Manning

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