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.
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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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She had little doubt that whatever happened to her on this drifting ship was of scant interest to a God who could allow her to reach this sorry state in the first place.
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There's a lot of women out there, some of whom are my age who've never been married and some who have been married and would like to be married again but think their ship has sailed, and I'm like, 'Oh no, honey, let Miss Niecy show you it is never too late for love!'
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Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.
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For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!").
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I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I became a poet.
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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.
