"In my opinion, it is easier to avoid……" — James Fenton
"In my opinion, it is easier to avoid iambic rhythms, when writing in syllabics, if you create a line or pattern of lines using odd numbers of syllables."
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James Fenton
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52 Quotes by James Fenton
James Fenton has 52 quotes on this site.
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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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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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More Avoid Quotes
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
— Aristotle
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid…
— Margaret Atwood
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I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid…
— Paul Auster
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Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.
— Richard Bach
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I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in…
— Christian Bale
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Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
— Joey Adams
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My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what…
— Martha Beck
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The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it…
— Conrad Black
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
— William Blake
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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