James Fenton Quotes

I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.

The freedom of poetic license.

Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.

The poet who writes "free" verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and darning for himself. In a few exceptional cases, this manly independence produces something original and impressive, but more often the result is squalor - dirty sheets on the unmade bed and empty bottles on the unswept floor.

I feel in poetry there aren't that many rules that you need to absolutely live by depending on your style of poetry.

Sometimes I believe that the reason I have been able to do such exemplary work on the screen is because this is the only place I can be free, neither censured nor judged.

There are times where we are shooting a TV show, and it goes very fast. But everybody has this freedom to still be artists.

Musicians are kind of like pirates, you know? You have to be free to follow whatever your muse is, or wherever life is pulling you - especially if you aren't in, like, U2, and making millions and millions of dollars.

From a creative perspective, we've been very fortunate in that doing it the 'VGHS' way gave us unlimited freedom. Whatever we wanted to do, however we wanted to do it, we had that.

We have a motto at Naropa: 'Keep the world safe for poetry.' It's humorous but has some real bite to it. If the world is safe for poetry, it can be safe for many other things.

With Alkaline Trio, we are who we are. We never really feel too confined, but when we get together, there is an Alkaline Trio sound, and when I go off and do something on my own, there is an element of freedom that I don't have with the Trio.

For me, jazz offers so much freedom in the way the music can be interpreted. It's natural to me. It's where I feel most free.

Writing for dance was a wonderfully freeing experience.

I never have a genre in mind when I'm making music because I just like to be free. I feel that placing a genre on your music is limiting yourself.

In music you can find your own niche. You can do what you want to do. There is really no job description. You have to find your own way, and that's fun.

There's never anything planned. I just do what I feel is best for the song at that time.

I wanted a label that reflects the times... a center for artists who want to express themselves. That's what makes Interscope unique. It's about freedom.

When you're a VJ, you can say whatever you want, dress whatever way you want to. You play your own character.

It also signals to me, when I pick up a pencil, that this is a rough draft. This is not going anywhere, and no one's going to see it. You have permission to make all the mistakes you want. It signals freedom to me, and it signals mistakes.

I enjoy creating. And if you can do it in a cool way, do it. You can't worry about disappointing people or what their expectations might be.

My own verse is usually free verse. The freer the better.

You'd never be able to convince someone to give you money to do a bilingual story where you're not translating half of it - you'd drive people crazy. But in comics, you can do whatever your heart desires.

Writing is really freeing because it's the only part of the process where it's just you and the characters and you are by yourself in a room and you can just hash it out. There are no limitations.

There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.