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Quote by James Broughton

“Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.”

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James Broughton, born on November 10, 1913, was an influential American poet known for his unique style and profound emotional expression in his poetry. His works have had a significant impact on the development of poetry in the United States. more

“Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry. When someone intrudes into the poet's life (and any sudden personal contact, whether in the bed or in the heart, is an intrusion) the poet loses his or her balance for a moment, slips into being what he or she is, uses his or her poetry as one would use money or sympathy. The person who writes the poetry emerges, tentatively, like a hermit crab from a conch shell. The poet, for that instant, ceases to be a dead person.”

Writing Heart Persons Moments Use Poetry Loses Loneliness Poet Balance Pure Bed Cease Contact Instant Slips Shells Intrusion Hermits Crabs Hermit Crabs

Author:Jack Spicer

“One day while studying a Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life. I recognized that a single short poem has room for history, music, psychology, religious thought, mood, occult speculation, character, and events of one's own life. I still feel surprised that such various substances can find shelter and nourishment in a poem. A poem in fact may be a sort of nourishing liquid, such as one uses to keep an amoeba alive. If prepared right, a poem can keep an image or a thought or insights on history or the psyche alive for years, as well as our desires and airy impulses.”

“In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.”

Audience Bars Defined Relate Score Strict Punctuation

Author:Ralph Richardson

“Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.”

Life Is Activity Relation Technique Mutual Stable Schedules Integration Unimaginable Punctuation Punctual Metropolitan

Book:The Sociology of Georg Simmel

Source: The Sociology of Georg Simmel

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