"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."
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"Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.“
-James Broughton
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