James Fenton quotes and aphorisms about written James Fenton ,, Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twenti... James Fenton James Fenton ,, If you're writing a song, you have to write something that can be understood serially. When you're ... James Fenton James Fenton ,, The term 'epitaph' itself means 'something to be spoken at a burial or engraved upon a tomb.' When ...