Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
James Broughton
The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
vision limits
It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.
poetry
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.
people
A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
worth life
If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.
life
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.
necessity life miracles
Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.
gifts truth self self-awareness
I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.
the-public art
theend
I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.
emotions order
The American public does not know poets exist.
the-public
Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.
dance movies
I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.
imagination action
Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.
work
For me, prose walks, poetry dances.
poetry dance
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