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'.


World within World (1951), Stephen Spender

T. S. Eliot Quotes

I can understand your wanting to write poems, but I don't quite know what you mean by 'being a poet'.

I can understand your wanting to write poems, but I don't quite know what you mean by 'being a poet'.

I can understand your wanting to write poems, but I don't quite know what you mean by 'being a poet'.

I can understand your wanting to write poems, but I don't quite know what you mean by 'being a poet'.