"One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry."

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Source : "Just keep practising for real" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2002.

James Fenton

#Writing Quotes #Faces Quotes #Problem Quotes

“If you build a cloud network, people will share.”
“In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.”

Source : "Wanderers". Book by Knut Hamsun, 1909.
“I think there's a lot of power in admitting that you don't know everything.”
“To ask the proper question is half of knowing.”

Source : "LIFE" Magazine, (p. 73), September 8, 1958.
“When everyone else says you can't, determination says,'YES YOU CAN.'”
“Corruption is knowing when something is not being done, knowing when the American people are being left unprotected and when you make a decision not to do something to protect the American people And you effectively allow 9/11 to occur. That is the ultimate form of government corruption-dereliction of duty. That's subject in the military to prosecution, to court martial. Frankly, if not treason.”
“I've had times where I walked up to the line, where I know the play, but don't know what to do.”
“There are very few chefs both in Britain and the States that really identify the secret of being consistent. And combine consistency with flavor.”

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