#poetry

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets. ↗

— James Broughton

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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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The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy. ↗

— James Broughton

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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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I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self, and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and patience, and a certain difficult repentance long difficult repentance, realization of life’s mistake, and the freeing oneself from the endless repetition of the mistake which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

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I visited many places, Some of them quite Exotic and far away, But I always returned to myself. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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The most complicated skill is to be simple. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window. ↗