Never allow gradually the traffic to smother with noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.
Stephen SpenderAlthough Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted for what they altimately are as revealed in their poetry.
Stephen SpenderThere is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.
Stephen Spender