James Fenton Quotes
One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.
Quotes to Explore
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.
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It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.
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There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there's also a side of it that's just like magic. You can't quite put your finger on it, and you can't quite describe or prescribe a formula for how to get that magic exactly, but when you feel it and when you see it,you know that's what it is. It's magic.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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TV is still the place to grab the most eyeballs.
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I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.
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The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.
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I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.
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During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
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I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.
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Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.
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Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.
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Women who have abortions are people you know. Because that is the truth! One in three American women will have an abortion by menopause.
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I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. People want pictures and autographs all the time.
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Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
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To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
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The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere information, or mirror anything. I am not a realist writer, even if I seem like one.
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If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.
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One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.
