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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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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
— Samuel Butler
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As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather…
— John Keats
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Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.
— Alexander Smith
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In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
— Samuel Johnson
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Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the…
— Victor Hugo
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Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the…
— Paul Eldridge
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Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.
— James Boswell
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I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration,…
— Ian Hamilton Finlay
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When I spoke at the St. Lawrence Seaway ceremonies in 1969, I borrowed some words from the monument there which I had…
— Richard M. Nixon
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For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own…
— Pericles
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Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual."
— Soren Kierkegaard
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