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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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Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
— Lord Byron
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I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I…
— Steve Carell
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If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in…
— Winston Churchill
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Discovery should come as an adventure rather than as the result of a logical process of thought. Sharp, prolonged thinking is necessary…
— Theobald Smith
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There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.
— Sun Tzu
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Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.
— Seneca the Younger
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When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of your distress…
— Sun Tzu
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What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations.
— Sun Tzu
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The atmosphere of the home is prolonged in the school, where the students soon discover thatin order to achieve some satisfaction they…
— Paulo Freire
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Prayer ought to be short and pure, unless it be prolonged by the inspiration of Divine grace.
— Benedict of Nursia
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War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
— Douglas MacArthur
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