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Stephen Spender on Poetry

1909–1995 England

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

The immediate reaction of the poets who fought in the war was cynicism...

The Struggle of the Modern (1963)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Stephen Spender (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.