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Origin Quotes by James Fenton
- Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral.
- Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to…
- Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in part oral, because…
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- It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Teresa of Avila
- Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. — Lord Acton
- It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does… — Saint Basil
- I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking… — Mortimer Adler
- Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to… — Mortimer Adler
- Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there… — Annie Besant
- Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested… — Ambrose Bierce
- When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming as loud as… — Jack Black
- There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of… — Martin Buber
- Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is 'The Origin of Species.' — Kirk Cameron
- There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing… — Nick Cave
- 'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the… — Sandra Cisneros