"Job's Leviathan" in JD Argassy #58 (1961); re-published in Pearls From Peoria (2006)
“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.”
“Only those who have dared to let go can dare to reenter.”
Quoted in Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists (2007) by James Geary, p. 232
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
"I Think of Those Who Were Truly Great"; also in Collected Poems 1928-1953 (1955)· Full text online and audio file of recitation by Spender, at the Poetry Archive http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=7523
Poems (1933)
Context: I think continually of those who were truly great.
Who, from the womb, remembered the soul's history
Through corridors of light where the hours are suns,
Endless and singing. Whose lovely ambition
Was that their lips, still touched with fire,
Should tell of the spirit clothed from head to foot in song.
“For those who create or interpret it, music is the maximum expression of the depth of his soul.”
Original: Per chi la crea o la interpreta, la musica è la massima espressione della profondità della sua anima.
Source: prevale.net
Source: The Grand Chessboard (1997), Chapter 2, The Eurasian Chessboard, p. 35.
“Your shallowness or greatness of the soul shows up in your aura.”
The Eight Human Talents (2001)
