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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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Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.

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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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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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True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: November 10th, 1913

Died: May 17th, 1999

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