#poe

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. ↗

— James Broughton

#hard #image #like #most #ought

My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it. ↗

— James Broughton

#absolute necessity #allowing #earliest #happen #invade

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

— James Broughton

#filled #films #images #like #page

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

— James Broughton

#me #much #poetry #practice #sexual

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

— James Broughton

#poets #professors #rarest #real

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy. ↗

— James Broughton

#joy #poetry #quietest

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

#down #experienced #healing #hope #i

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

— Anatole Broyard

#inalienable #logical #picturesque #poetry #sentences

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

— James Buchan

#contain #does #importance #information #like

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

— Robert Frost

#love #love affair #never #never take #notes