James Broughton Quotes
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I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.
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The American public does not know poets exist.
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Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
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Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.
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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.
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Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.
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Amazement awaits us at every corner.
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My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.
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Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
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If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.
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True delicacy is not a fragile thing.
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A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
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For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.
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I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.
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The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.
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Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.
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And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.
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Acclaim is a distraction.
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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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If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.
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For me, prose walks, poetry dances.
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Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.
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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.
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The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.