Quote by James Broughton
Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it w

Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers. – James Broughton

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For me, poetry is a situation – a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

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The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all. – Peter Davison

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People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves. What I – Harold Bloom

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I never thought Id be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas. – Caroline Kennedy

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