stephen spender quotes
It is easier to ignore Than the heroes' sunset fire Of death plunged in their willed desire Raging with flags on the world's shore.Your heart was loaded with its fate like lead Pressing against the net of flesh: and those Countries that crept back across the boundaries Where you had forced open the arena Of limelit France with your star at the centre, Closed in on you, terrified no longer At the diamond in your head Which cut their lands and killed their men.And if this I were destroyed, The image shattered, My perceived, rent world would fly In an explosion of final judgement To the ends of the sky, The colour in the iris of the eye.
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. It leaves those figures that distantly play On the horizon's rim: they sign their peace, in games.History has tongues Has angels has guns has saved has praised Today proclaims Achievements of her exiles long returned Now no more rootless, for whom her printed page Glazes their bruised waste years in one Balancing present sky.Deep in the winter plain, two armies Dig their machinery, to destroy each other.
I have not written the books I ought to have written and I have written a lot of books I should not have written. Opening, my eyes say 'Let there be light', Closing, they shut me in a coffin.And then the heart in its white sailing pride Launches among the swans and the stretched lights Laid on the water, as on your cheek The other kiss and my listening Life, waiting for all your life to speak.Involved in my own entrails and a crust Turning a pitted surface towards a space, I am a world that watches through a sky And is persuaded by mirrors To regard its being as an external shell, One of a universe of stars and faces.The prose method might be described as that where the writer provides a complete description of all those material factors in the environment which condition his characters. But the boy lying dead under the olive trees Was too young and too silly To have been notable to their important eye. Sir Stephen Harold Spender was an English poet, novelist and essayist whose work concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle.Spender was discovered by … Religion stands, the church blocking the sun… Stephen Spender. Home > Stephen Spender Quotes. Our motto is: Don't quote it if you can't source it. Birthdate: 28.
— On turning 70 in Journals 1939-83 (1986), as quoted by R Z Sheppard in TIMEmagazine (20 January 1986) Tags: struggling, end, valley, youth, journalistic, middle, age, imposture, moneymaking. My life as lived by me has been interesting to me but to write truthfully about it would probably cause much pain to people close to me — and I always feel that the feelings of the living are more important than the monuments of the dead.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.Surely, Shakespeare is wicked and the map a bad example Bright clasp of her whole hand around my finger My daughter as we walk together now. He was a better target for a kiss.His name never appeared in the papers. Well-known quotes by Stephen Spender. Stephen Spender Quotes. But the fact is I regard my life as rather a failure in the only thing in which I wanted it to succeed.
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