What did James Fenton mean by: At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. - James Fenton Poet Copy
+ Windbags can be right. Aphorists can be wrong. It is a tough world. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James Fenton, Tough, 0 - James Fenton Poet
+ Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate. Feraz Zeid, July 5, 2023December 12, 2023, James Fenton, 0 - James Fenton Poet
+ What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James Fenton, Century, Happened, Pages, 0 - James Fenton Poet
+ Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James Fenton, 0 - James Fenton Poet
+ One does not become a guru by accident. Explain Feraz Zeid, August 23, 2023December 24, 2023, James Fenton, Accidents, Guru, 0 - James Fenton Poet
+ Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James Fenton, Baby, Poetry, 0 - James Fenton Poet
+ Nobody really knows whether they are a poet. I knew I was interested from the age of 15. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James Fenton, Age, Poet, 0 - James Fenton Poet
+ Oh let us not be condemned for what we are. It is enough to account for what we do. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, James Fenton, Accounts, Enough, 0 - James Fenton Poet
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become. - Jean Toomer Writer
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic. - Franz Grillparzer Writer · Austria
Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow. - Matthea Harvey Poet
When it’s done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all. - Max Barry Author · Australia
You know, when you’re relaxed, you’re putting it out there, and then it comes, oh, I can do that. - Lou Reed Musician · USA
I veer more toward the philosophical and the poetic than I do toward the alert and angry. - Michelle Stuart
It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: you are all stardust. - Lawrence M. Krauss Theoretical physicist
