Author: James Broughton

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Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.

Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.

- James Broughton

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.

- James Broughton

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.

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.

- James Broughton

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.

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.

- James Broughton

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.

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.

- James Broughton

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

- James Broughton

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

- James Broughton

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.

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

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.

- James Broughton

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