American - Director | November 10, 1913 - May 17, 1999
The American public does not know poets exist.
James Broughton
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Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.
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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.
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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.
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I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.
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A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
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Acclaim is a distraction.
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Adversity is a stimulus.
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Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.
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Consciousness is the glory of creation.
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The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.
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I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.
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