James Fenton Quotes

'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem in which the poet addresses his adored both as 'love' and as 'guv' - a perfectly decent solution once, but only once, in a while.

James Fenton

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In the wake of the United Kingdom's vote to 'Brexit' the E.U., we Europeans will indeed have to rethink how our Union works; but we know very well what we need to work for. We know what our principles, interests, and priorities are.

Federica Mogherini
- Work
- Know
- Vote
Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.

Vidal Sassoon
- Good
- Important
- Kids
The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.

Pat Metheny
- Life
- Music
- Reality
We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.

Hanya Yanagihara
- Death
- Winning
- Dying
If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.

Barbara Kruger
- American
- Culture
- New
Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.

Mako
- Day
- Fighting
- Stereotypes