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“Windbags can be right. Aphorists can be wrong. It is a tough world.”

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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

“Among those today who believe that modern poetry must do without rhyme or metre, there is an assumption that the alternative to free verse is a crash course in villanelles, sestinas and other such fixed forms. But most... are rare in English poetry. Few poets have written a villanelle worth reading, or indeed regret not having done so.”

Believe Done Today Form Courses Reading Written Modern Poet Regret Alternatives Fixed Assumption Verses Crash Rhyme Worth Reading Free Verse Modern Poetry English Poetry

Author:James Fenton

“It normally happens that if you put two words together, or two syllables together, one of them will attract more weight, more emphasis, than the other. In other words, most so-called spondees can be read as either iambs or trochees.”

Ifs Two Happens Together Weight Emphasis Syllables

Author:James Fenton

“The composer does not want the self-sufficiency of a richly complex text: he or she wants to feel that the text is something in need of musical setting.”

Want Needs Feels Doe Self Complexes Musical Setting Settings Composer Self Sufficiency Sufficiency

Author:James Fenton

“My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. My epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not lost - that it is born again.”

Should Stills Lost Born Fortune Narrative Heroic Epic Sonnet Born Again Still Life

Author:James Fenton

“I joined the Labour Party not because it was Left Wing, but because it was definitely internationalists and would seem to be the group in the Labour Party which would serve my purpose best for propaganda along internationalist lines.”

Seems Purpose Left Lines Party Groups Wings Propaganda Labour Left Wing Labour Party

Author:Norman Angell

“The Council of the Union of Democratic Control re-affirms its unshaken conviction that a lasting settlement cannot be secured by a peace based upon the right of conquest and followed by commercial war, but only by a peace which gives just consideration to the claims of nationality, and which lays the foundation of a real European partnership.”

Giving War Real Claims Foundation Lays Unions Democratic Conviction Consideration Lasting Partnership Conquest Council Nationality Settlement Secured

Author:Norman Angell

“I'm Glad that the Bush years are behind us”

Years Behinds Glad

Author:Jackson Browne

“Now if I seem to be afraidTo live the life that I have made in songWell it's just that I've been losing so long.”

Ifs Long Made Seems Losing Live Life

Author:Jackson Browne

“Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.”

Easy Sound Crazy Take It Easy

Author:Jackson Browne

“Well, I'm a standing on a cornerIn Winslow, ArizonaAnd such a fine sight to see,It's a girl, my lord, in a flatbed FordSlowin' down to have a look at me.”

Wells Looks Girl Lord Fine Standing Sight Look At Me

Author:Jackson Browne

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