"The 1960s was a period when writers in……" — James Fenton
"The 1960s was a period when writers in the West began to be aware of the extraordinary eloquence and popular attraction of the Russian poets such as Yevtushenko and Voznesensky - oppositional figures who could draw crowds. The Russian poets recited from memory as a matter of course."
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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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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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I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely…
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Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.
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I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you…
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when…
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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.
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Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.
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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
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I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people…
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I think the attraction to country music is the fans, the lure of the hardcore fan base.
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