James Fenton Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: b. April 25, 1949
Birthday: April 25
The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where 'open form' or free verse is the orthodoxy, you will find a memory of that raising of the voice in the term 'heightened speech.'
topic: Memories, Voice, Speech, Free Verse
