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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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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Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies – as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater. – James Broughton

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I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes. – Mark Strand

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I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life. – Saul Williams

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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. – Oscar Wilde

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I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. – Paul Dirac

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