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

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.

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

If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.

Stephen Spender
Cutting, Poetry, Shaving

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