"I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem."

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Source : "Changing rooms" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2002.

James Fenton

#Lines Quotes #Single Line Quotes

“Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.”
“A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.”
“The more times people laugh, the better the film is.”

Source : Source: www.moviesonline.ca
“Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.”
“I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said 'What play was that?' and he said 'It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.'”
“Nobody will give you freedom. You have to take it.”

Source : Meret Oppenheim, Therese Bhattacharya-Stettler, Matthias Frehner, Nathalie Bäschlin, Kunstmuseum Bern (2007). “Meret Oppenheim: retrospective : "an enormously tiny bit of a lot"”, Hatje Cantz Pub
“I stand before you as the governor of Texas but also stand before you the son of two tenant farmers. Ray Perry who came home after 35 bombing missions over Europe to work his little corner of land out there and Amelia who made sure that my sister Milla and I had everything that we needed, included hand sewing my clothes until I went off to college.”
“You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify and bring an emotional lift. But the thing is you don't want to get in the way of the song.”

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