Stephen Spender Quotes About Poetry

Quotes about: Poetry

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

  Stephen Spender

  Poetry, Great Poet, Can Do

  The New York Times, March 26, 1961.

• If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.

  Stephen Spender

  Cutting, Poetry, Shaving

• 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

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