James Broughton Quotes
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If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.
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Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.
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Adversity is a stimulus.
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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.
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I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.
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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.
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Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.
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I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.
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I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.
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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.
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Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.
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In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.
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Consciousness is the glory of creation.
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Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.