Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
Stephen Spender
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As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.
Valerie Jarrett
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We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.
Wendy Kopp
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The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.
Immanuel Kant
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Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.
Walter Raleigh
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Why, be this Juice the growth of God, who dare Blaspheme the twisted tendril as a Snare? A Blessing, we should use it, should we not? And if a Curse - why, then, Who set it there?
Omar Khayyam
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Alles ist einfacher, als man denken kann, zugleich verschränkter, als zu begreifen ist.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working behind the camera. They are not reality, they form part of the language of culture.
Edmundo Desnoes
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
Laura Dern
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Do you tell me that the Bible is against our rights? Then I say that our claims do not rest upon a book written no one knows when, or by whom. Do you tell me what Paul or Peter says on the subject? Then again I reply that our claims do not rest on the opinions of any one, not even on those of Paul and Peter, . . . Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.
Ernestine Rose
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Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
Stephen Spender
