Quotes by : James Fenton

God, A Poem 'I didn't exist at Creation, I didn't exist at the Flood, And I won't be around for SalvationTo....

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

The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank....

One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves....

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

Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported....

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

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

It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down.It is not the houses. It is the spaces between....

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