"When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment."

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When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and with modern punctuation, and with notes. But any poetry that is performed - from song lyric to tragic speech - must make its point, as it were, without reference back.

— James Fenton