Fenton Barns

Famous quotes containing the words fenton and/or barns:

    The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.
    —James Fenton (b. 1949)

    I see before me now a traveling army halting,
    Below a fertile valley spread, with barns and the orchards of summer,
    Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt, in places rising high,
    Walt Whitman (1819–1892)