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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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If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
— Frank Abagnale
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The fact that you can forge a twenty dollar bill doesn't prove that all twenty dollar bills are forgeries.
— Rupert Sheldrake
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A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.
— Morris Bender
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These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead,…
— William Shakespeare
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We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New…
— Thomas Paine
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Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only…
— William Gaddis
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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I am always fascinated when people talk about 'the forging of a nation'. Most nations are forgeries, perpetrated in the last century…
— Neal Ascherson
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The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.
— Ralph Hodgson
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Anything that's signed by me on EBay is a forgery and not authentic.
— Brett Hull
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Whether or not you agree that trimming and cooking are likely to lead on to downright forgery, there is little to support…
— Unknown Author
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The creation is the Bible of the Deist. He there reads, in the handwriting of the Creator himself, the certainty of His…
— Thomas Paine
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