Stephen Spender Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Sometimes when I am writing, I am aware of a rhythm, a dance, a fury, which is as yet empty of words.

  Stephen Spender

  Writing, Sometimes, Empty

• What we call the freedom of the individual is not just the luxury of one intellectual to write what he likes to write but his being a voice which can speak for those who are silent.

  Stephen Spender

  Writing, Voice, Luxury

  Stephen Spender (1978). “The thirties and after: poetry, politics, people 1933-1970”, Random House Inc

• My uncle was famous for his balanced point of view. At the time of which I am writing (when he was nearly seventy) it had become so balanced, that the act of balancing seemed rather automatic.One had only to offer him an opinion for him to balance it with a counter- opinion of exactly the same weight, as a grocer puts a pound weight against a pound of sugar.

  Stephen Spender

  Uncles, Writing, Views

  1951 World within World, p.77.

• A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and the condition of inspiration which many people have said is near to madness... The problem of creative writing is essentially one of concentration... a focusing of the attention in a special way.

  Stephen Spender

  Inspiration, Writing, People

• An English poet writes, I think, just for people who are interested in poetry. An American poet writes, and feels that everyone ought to appreciate this. Then he has a deep sense of grievance . . .

  Stephen Spender

  Writing, Thinking, People

• 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

  Struggle, Writing, Confusion

  "Journals 1939-1983". Book by Stephen Spender, 1986.

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