"Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to."

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Source : "Slave to the rhythm" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2002.

James Fenton

#Challenges Quotes #Lines Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I stumble all the time parenting my daughter. I ask her for forgiveness all the time and I preach forgiveness to her.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
“The lightning-bug is brilliant, but he hasn't any mind; He stumbles through existence with his headlight on behind.”
“For decades, people have known the chemical-propulsion approach to space travel is really not going to get us that far. Chemical propulsion is essentially like the horse-and-cart approach to the exploration of the American West, instead of the steamboat or the railroad.”
“Thanks to the euro, our pockets will soon hold solid evidence of a European identity. We need to build on this, and make the euro more than a currency and Europe more than a territory... In the next six months, we will talk a lot about political union, and rightly so. Political union is inseparable from economic union. Stronger growth and Euorpean integration are related issues. In both areas we will take concrete steps forward.”
“Gay TV has been immensely important in transforming American culture in a more gay-positive direction.”
“Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!”

Source : Sun Ra, Hartmut Geerken (2005). “The Immeasurable Equation: The Collected Poetry and Prose”, p.250, BoD – Books on Demand
“The only serious side-effect of #â€Ž ***** is that you might get arrested.”
“There is an answer, some day we will know And you will ask her, why she had to go We live and die, we laugh and we cry You must take away the pain Before you can begin to live again”

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