Stephen Spender

Quotes

• “Since we are what we are, what shall we be But what we are? We are, we have Six feet and seventy years, to see The light, and then resign it for the grave.”
• “Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.”
• “I simply had to get there.”
• “There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife — a tyrannical midwife.”
• “When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.”
• “I'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.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1909-02-28 ) 28 February 1909, Kensington , London, England

Died

16 July 1995 (1995-07-16) (aged 86), St John's Wood , London, England

Occupation

Poet, novelist, essayist

Education

University College, Oxford

Spouse

Inez Pearn ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1936 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1939 ) ​ Natasha Litvin ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1941 ) ​

Children

Elizabeth Matthew

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