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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. "
James Broughton
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" I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless. "
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" Acclaim is a distraction. "
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" Amazement awaits us at every corner. "
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" Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open. "
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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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" 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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" True delicacy is not a fragile thing. "
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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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" Consciousness is the glory of creation. "
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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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" The American public does not know poets exist. "
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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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" The only limits are, as always, those of vision. "
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" If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life. "
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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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" A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living. "
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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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