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"For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust"
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Stephen SpenderMore beautiful and soft than any moth — Stephen Spender
"More beautiful and soft than any moth With burring furred antennae feeling its huge path Through dusk, the air-liner with shut-off engines Glides over suburbs and the sleeves set trailing tall To point the wind. Gently, broadly, she falls, Scarcely disturbing charted currents of air."
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Sir Stephen Harold Spender was an English poet, novelist and essayist whose work concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle. He was appointed U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1965.
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"History is the ship carrying living memories to the future."
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"I say, stamping the words with emphasis, Drink from here energy and only energy"
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"Eye, gazelle, delicate wanderer, Drinker of horizon’s fluid line; Ear that suspends on a chord The spirit drinking timelessness; Touch, love, all senses..."
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"There was a wood, Habitation of foxes and fleshy burrows, Where I learnt to uncast my childhood, and not alone, I learnt, not alone. There were four hands, four eyes, A third mouth of the dark to kiss. Two people And a third not either: and both double, yet different. I entered with myself. I left with a woman."
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"No one Shall hunger: Man shall spend equally. Our goal which we compel: Man shall be man."
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