Quotes by : James Fenton

The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism,....

English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as....

The MistakeWith the mistake your life goes in reverse.Now you can see exactly what you didWrong yesterday....

The great cause of the new Republican intake is the reduction of the deficit but to anyone seeking evidence....

When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally,....

Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth....

My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals....

Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral.

Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.

In the writing of poetry we never know anything for sure. We will never know if we have 'trained' or....