"Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom……" — James Fenton
"Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open to accusations of elitism, mandarinism. Open form was like common ground on which all might graze their cattle - it was not to be closed in by usurping landlords."
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James Fenton
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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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Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops.
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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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But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one…
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I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're…
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We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be…
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Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.
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Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams,…
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I know there's been a lot that's been said about animated voice work, as though it's 'you can do this…
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Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.
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Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.
— Graydon Carter
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Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims…
— Anna Maria Chavez
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You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all…
— Deepak Chopra
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