“The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, ...” — James Fenton Quote

“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.'”

“God, A Poem”

“It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down.”