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The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy. - James Broughton

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy. – James Broughton

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I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action. – James Broughton

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Imagination
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James Broughton
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Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect. – James Broughton

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respect
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Poetry
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In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn. – Lawrence Summers

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Poetry

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music. – Stephen Sondheim

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Poetry
[P]oetry… the spontaneous fusion of hitherto unrelated words. Such things must take place in your own head, by your own chemistry. – Marie Emilie Gilchrist (1893–1989), Writing Poetry: Suggestions for Young

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Poetry

I dont think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry

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Lyres are placid in the hands of poets; but the true lyre is the poet himself. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. – Hosea Ballou

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Habits

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. – Desiderius Erasmus

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Be Yourself

Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swans egg. – Hans Christian Andersen

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Perception