Stephen Spender Quotes About Memories

Quotes about: Memories

• History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

  Stephen Spender

  Memories, History, Ships

  "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Times" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 247), 1993.

• 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

  Memories, Creativity, Self

• Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness.

  Stephen Spender

  Memories, Poetry, Genius

• All the lessons learned, unlearned; The young, who learned to read, now blind, Their eyes with an archaic film; The peasant relapses to a stumbling tune, Following the donkey's bray; These only remember to forget. But somewhere some word presses, On the high door of a skull and in some corner, Of an irrefrangible eye, Some old man memory jumps to a child - Spark from the days of energy. And the child hoards it like a bitter toy.

  Stephen Spender

  Children, Memories, Eye

  "Selected Poems (Fall of a City)". Book by Stephen Spender, 1941.

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