The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.
Source: From Charles Daney's Quotation Collection, an internet collection of quotations., an internet collection of quotations.
-- Stephen Spender, (Sep 28 1909-1995), English poet, critic; His poems expressing the politically conscience-stricken, leftist new writing of the 1930s period.