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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.”

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James Fenton

James Fenton, a renowned British poet, was born on April 25, 1949. His poetry is widely acclaimed for its unique style and profound emotional expression. more

“Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth.”

Years Firsts Soul Body Law Boys Fire Teaching Youth Habit Exercise Labor Wine Lays Add Caution Pouring

Author:Plato

“There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.”

Self Pleasure Conscious Pursuit

Book:Enjoyment of living

Source: Enjoyment of living

“The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics.”

May Used Poetry Term Simple Subjects Involved Mathematics Nine Rhythm Consideration Ethical Verses Rhyme Convenient Meter Pedantry

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“Catch a vista of maples in that long light and you see Autumn glowing through the leaves.... The promise of gold and crimson is there among the branches, though as yet it is achieved on only a stray branch, an impatient limb or an occasional small tree which has not yet learned to time its changes.”

Long Light Tree Promise Gold Branches Autumn Limbs Occasional Impatient Glowing Crimson Vistas Maple

Author:Hal Borland

“The hush comes with the deepening of Autumn; but it comes gradually. Our ears are attuned to it, day by quieter day. But even now, if one awakens in the deep darkness of the small hours, one can hear it, a foretaste of Winter silence. It’s a little painful now, and a little lonely because it is so strange.”

Ifs Littles Hours Silence Darkness Strange Lonely Ears Winter Painful Autumn Hush Deep Dark

Author:Hal Borland

“We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.”

Earth Imagination Exaggeration Rakes

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.”

Persons Body Labor Idleness Begets Hysterical Ennui Diseased Hypochondriac

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.”

Prayer Transactions

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

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