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James Fenton has 53 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line,…
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What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.
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A cabaret song has got to be written - for the middle voice, ideally - because you've got to hear the wit…
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Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of…
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Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops.
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Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open…
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For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on…
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A really interesting and happy time was when I first went to Florence as a student and studied Italian. I was living…
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At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This…
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Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that…
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Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads,…
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The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
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A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy.
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Besides my fast and slooow songs, I further divide my work into three main song types: the ballad or story song, the…
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I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of…
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To me, ballads are special, because you can have a pop song that’ll be know for three weeks and then you’ll hear…
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I got a chance to get an actual label. I performed this slow song, this ballad I have. I just remember going to…
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I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey,…
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Oh, I'm a ballad queen for sure... I don't dig dance stuff very much but I seem to hit the charts with…
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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about. If it's somebody else's lyric, and the message is…
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A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss
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But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.
— John Fogerty
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I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen…
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