James Fenton Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Nobody really knows whether they are a poet. I knew I was interested from the age of 15.

  James Fenton

  Age, Poet, Knows

• A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age had no use for it, and the kind of Latin poetry that does rhyme - as for instance the medieval Carmina Burana - tends to be somewhat crude stuff in comparison with the classical verse that doesn't.

  James Fenton

  Latin, Age, Doe

  "It ain't necessarily so" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2002.

• For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The choice is between the nullity and vanity of our first efforts, and the developing of a sense of idiom, form, structure, metre, rhythm, line - all the fundamental characteristics of this verbal art.

  James Fenton

  Art, Vanity, Hands

  "An Introduction to English Poetry". Book by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2002.

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