For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

Quote by James Broughton

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Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

The American public does not know poets exist.

The American public does not know poets exist.

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a...

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a...

My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade...

My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade...

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly...

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly...

My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.

My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

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

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

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do...

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do...

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets,...

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets,...

Adversity is a stimulus.

Adversity is a stimulus.

Consciousness is the glory of creation.

Consciousness is the glory of creation.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all...

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all...

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred...

Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred...

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to...

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to...

Acclaim is a distraction.

Acclaim is a distraction.