"What we call the freedom of the individual is not just the luxury of one intellectual to write what he likes to write but his being a voice which can speak for those who are silent."

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Source : Stephen Spender (1978). “The thirties and after: poetry, politics, people 1933-1970”, Random House Inc

Stephen Spender

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“The more time I spent on the site the more I came to think of Wales as some kind of Queen Ant, letting the vast colony go about its work, at the centre of a system where the knowledge of the community is infinitely larger than the sum of experience of all its individuals.”
“When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.”
“One way to think about a pure hyperbolic surface is that it's the geometric opposite of a sphere. If you look at a sphere, the curvature is the same everywhere, as opposed to, say, an egg, which clearly does not curve the same everywhere. This is what makes spheres geometrically important. Mathematically speaking, a sphere has positive curvature and a hyperbolic surface has negative curvature, but both have constant curvature everywhere.”
“Let us invoke a continuance of the same protecting care which has led us from small beginnings to the eminence we this day occupy.”
“We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss.”
“You can always spot clothes made in a good place.”
“Of all the senseless babble I have ever had occasion to read, the demonstrations of these philosophers who undertake to tell us all about the nature of God would be the worst, if they were not surpassed by the still greater absurdities of the philosophers who try to prove that there is no God.”
“What if a dawn of a doom of a dream bites this universe in two, peels forever out of his grave, and sprinkles nowhere with me and you?”

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