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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From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become from what the ancients did, what poetry must be. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. – Pablo Neruda, quoted in Wall Street Journal,, 14 November 1985

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