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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In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets. – James Broughton

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Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now. – 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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Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. – John Masefield

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Well, if this is poetry, Im certainly never going to write any myself. – James Schuyler

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For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music. – Eugenio Montale

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Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of mans expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid. – Salvatore Quasimodo

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