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''The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.''
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James Fenton (b. 1949), British poet, critic. "Ars Poetica," no. 7, Independent on Sunday (London, March 11, 1990).
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''The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.''
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James Fenton (b. 1949), British poet, critic. Ars Poetica, no. 22, Independent on Sunday (London, June 24, 1990).
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''Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.''
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James Fenton (b. 1949), British poet, critic. "Ars Poetica," no. 47, Independent on Sunday (London, Dec. 16, 1990).
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''It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down.
It is not the houses. It is the spaces between the houses.
It is not the streets that exist. It is the streets that no longer exist.''
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James Fenton (b. 1949), British poet, critic. German Requiem (1981).
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It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask, and imagine that the elastic which holds the mask on has just broken, so that the man (rather than ...
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James Fenton (b. 1949), British poet, critic. New Statesman (London, July 23, 1976).
Referring to former Chancellor Nigel Lawson.
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Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city ... or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking themselves to what extent they are cowards. But the tests they set themselves&#...
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James Fenton (b. 1949), British poet, critic. repr. In All the Wrong Places (1988). "The Fall of Saigon," no. 15, Granta (Cambridge, England, 1985).
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Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of women, the humiliation of the old, the division of the family, the divis...
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James Fenton (b. 1949), British poet, critic. repr. In All the Wrong Places (1988). "The Fall of Saigon," no. 15, Granta (Cambridge, England, 1985).
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''One does not become a guru by accident.''
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James Fenton (b. 1949), British poet, critic. Times (London, Aug. 9, 1984).
Referring to playwright Samuel Beckett.
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