Quotes about Stephen Spender
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On being asked by Mr Stephen Spender in the 1930s how best a poet could serve the Communist cause:
Go to Spain and get killed. The movement needs a Byron.To then young Stephen Spender who had revealed that he wanted to be a poet:
I can understand your wanting to write poems, but I don't quite know what you mean by 'being a poet'.
