James Broughton Quotes
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
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Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
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It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than they imagine, for the success they may have achieved, even in practical pursuits, and for the enjoyment their lives have afforded them.
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My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim volume of poetry.
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I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.
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Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
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Poetry is the deification of reality.
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
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Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
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I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...'
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If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.
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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
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Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.
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Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.
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Neither nature, experience, nor probability informs these lists of 'entitlements', which are subject to no constraints except those of the mind and appetite of their authors.
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Ferrari or Lamborghini. Never fancied one of those – too flash for me. I don't really like seeking too much attention.
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The thing about this business is that you always end up finding these amazing stories and these amazing people who make amazing films. I just want to work with good people and keep challenging myself with different kinds of characters.
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For me, prose walks, poetry dances.
