"Babies are not brought by storks and poets……" — James Fenton
"Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops."
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52 Quotes by James Fenton
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Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a…
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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…
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Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the…
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Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always…
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For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French…
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A really interesting and happy time was when I first went to Florence as a student and studied Italian. I…
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At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic…
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Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is…
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Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper…
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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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English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we…
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More Babies Quotes
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Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like…
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If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you…
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I do believe babies are born potty-trained. They're born knowing and are able to give subtle signals that become very…
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There should be a worldwide law, in my opinion, that mothers should breastfeed their babies for six months.
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Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but…
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My mother goes crazy over babies. Some people just do. They love 'em! I never have. Babies scare me more…
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It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
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The tabloids, instead of being about alien babies and stuff, it's my triplets, quadruplets, marriages, feuds.
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Once you leave the womb, conservatives don't care about you until you reach military age. Then you're just what they're…
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The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the…
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"I call them april babies cause they fools"
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I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food.
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