#poe

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images. ↗

— James Broughton

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Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is. ↗

— James Broughton

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

— James Broughton

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The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy. ↗

— James Broughton

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I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

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Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

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Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice. ↗

— James Buchan

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A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair. ↗

— Robert Frost

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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven! ↗

— Lord Byron

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