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Thing Quotes by James Fenton
- Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot…
- 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…
- There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet. But the thing…
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