Stephen Spender/works

Famous quotes containing the words stephen spender, stephen, spender and/or works:

“What I had not foreseen
Was the gradual day
Weakening the will
Leaking the brightness away,”
—Stephen Spender (1909–1995)

“Well, at least I have the satisfaction of having destroyed a terrible monster, and in doing so rid the world of an awful curse.”
—Griffin Jay, and Harold Young. Stephen Banning (Dick Foran)

“Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.”
—Stephen Spender (1909–1995)

“Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn’t have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)