James Fenton Quotes

Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to.

James Fenton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: April 25, 1949

Topics

ChallengeEndDownFirstLinePoem

In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same.

Joan Armatrading

StepThinkAmericaYouOutsideSame

Smile, smile, smile at your mind as often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce your mind's tearing tension.

Sri Chinmoy

SmileMindSmilingWillPossible

To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.

Stanley Hauerwas

FriendshipLonelinessFoodMoneyYou

One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife.

Robert T. Bakker

AnimalSickPlantBadThings Happen

We tend to think of human trafficking as a foreign issue, not something that could happen here in our own back yards. But it's a fast-growing problem in the United States, in every area, with no real defined demographic.

Lori Foster

ThinkProblemBackHumanRealOwn

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

Brian Clough

LifeShoesHellMy LifeHolidayGo

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

Brian Eno

PastThinkRememberLookBackJust

My act is pretty much me reflecting on what I want to talk about and what I think is funny and what has happened to me.

Brian Posehn

FunnyMeThinkWantTalkPretty

I dreamed my whole life of New York being my home.

Annaleigh Ashford

LifeHomeNew YorkNewBeingWhole

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

Paulo Coelho

SunsetWordsWaitingTearsPhone

At some point around '94 or '95, 'Rolling Stone' said that guitar rock was dead and that the Chemical Brothers were the future. I think that was the last issue of 'Rolling Stone' I ever bought.

Scott Ian

FutureThinkGuitarStoneSaidRock

The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers.

Tim Bishop

LifeQualityLongIslandSound

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