“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
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“Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.”
— James Broughton
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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.”
— James Broughton
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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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“In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.”
— James Broughton
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“Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.”
— James Broughton
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“Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies – as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.”
— James Broughton
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“Amazement awaits us at every corner.”
— James Broughton
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“The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.”
— James Broughton
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“Amazement awaits us at every corner.”
— James Broughton
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“Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.”
— James Broughton
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