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Quote by Stephen Spender
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond

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

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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. – Stephen Spender

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The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind… The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself. – Laura Riding

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I love to write poetry. – Shayne Ward

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The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. – Dylan Thomas

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Music is my thing. Its my thing its what I love. Its what I do. Its football to me its Christmas to me religion to me poetry to me. – Ryan Adams

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