Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself.
Stephen SpenderAll that you can imagine you already know
Stephen SpenderI'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 SpenderNever to allow gradually the traffic to smother / With noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.
Stephen SpenderAlthough Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted for what they altimately are as revealed in their poetry.
Stephen SpenderMots clés poets
I think continually of those who were truly great...Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun, and left the vivid air signed with their honor.
Stephen SpenderNear the snow,near the sun , in the highest field
See how those names are feted by the wavering grass,
And by the streamers of white cloud,
And whispers of wind in the listening sky;
The names of those who in their lives have fought for life,
Who wore at their hearts the fire's centre.
Born of the sun they traveled a short while towrads the sun.
And left the vivid air signed with their honour.
...Tolstoy's characters seem to come forward to meet you, very conscious of the impression they are making on one another and on the reader.
Stephen SpenderMots clés tolstoy literary-style
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
Stephen Spenderأتكلّم عن كل فرد, الحياة في نظره هي الحياة, وليست مجرد حلقة جاثمة لا نهاية لها من القوانين والمخاوف والعبودية والادعاء والبحث عن المراكز واغتصاب المال. لا شك أن كل إنسان قد مر بمثل هذه اللحظات, لحظات يتحرر فيها من ظروف الحاضر ومخاوفه وشروره لكي يحيا ببساطة لأجل الحياة.
إن فهم هذه اللحظات هو جوهر الحرية..
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