Stephen Spender Quotes about Memories

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

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.

Stephen Spender Quotes about Memories

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