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“I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.”
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James Broughton
#Children Quotes
#Child Abuse Quotes
#Aging Quotes
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“At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder.”
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James Broughton
#Bumps Quotes
#Wonder Quotes
#Be Prepared Quotes
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“The only limits are, as always, those of vision.”
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James Broughton
#Business Quotes
#Vision Quotes
#Limits Quotes
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“Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.”
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James Broughton
#Trust Quotes
#Challenges Quotes
#Individual Quotes
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“I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.”
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James Broughton
#Writing Quotes
#Order Quotes
#Emotion Quotes
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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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James Broughton
#Imagination Quotes
#Risk Quotes
#Horizon Quotes
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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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James Broughton
#White Quotes
#Pages Quotes
#Film Quotes
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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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James Broughton
#Poetic Quotes
#Life Is Quotes
#Cradle Quotes
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“Life is adventure, not predicament.”
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James Broughton
#Adventure Quotes
#Life Is Quotes
#Predicaments Quotes
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“It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.”
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James Broughton
Source : James Broughton (1990). “Special deliveries: new and selected poems”, Broken Moon Pr
#Writing Quotes
#Important Quotes
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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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James Broughton
#Song Quotes
#Laughing Quotes
#Silence Quotes
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“The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.”
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James Broughton
#Joy Quotes
#Explosions 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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James Broughton
#Cookies Quotes
#Want Quotes
#Bitterness Quotes
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“True delicacy is not a fragile thing.”
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James Broughton
#Strength Quotes
#Delicacy Quotes
#Fragile Things Quotes
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“Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.”
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James Broughton
#Spiritual Quotes
#Practice Quotes
#Ecstasy Quotes
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“Life's major challenge: getting reborn often enough.”
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James Broughton
Source : James Broughton (1988). “75 Life Lines”
#Challenges Quotes
#Enough Quotes
#Reborn Quotes
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“Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.”
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James Broughton
#Poetry Quotes
#Magic Quotes
#Literature Quotes
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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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James Broughton
#India Quotes
#France Quotes
#Denmark Quotes
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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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James Broughton
#Magic Quotes
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“I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.”
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James Broughton
#Tough Quotes
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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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James Broughton
#Art Quotes
#Passion Quotes
#Arguing Quotes
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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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James Broughton
#Real Quotes
#Poetry Quotes
#Would Be Quotes
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“Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.”
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James Broughton
#Cinema Quotes
#Theater Quotes
#Verses Quotes
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“We are all participants in the marvelous.”
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James Broughton
#Joyfulness Quotes
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“Follow your own weird.”
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James Broughton
Source : James Broughton (1977). “Seeing the light”
#Humor Quotes
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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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James Broughton
#Vision Quotes
#Acting Quotes
#World Quotes
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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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James Broughton
#Writing Quotes
#Hands Quotes
#Film Quotes
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“Amazement awaits us at every corner.”
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James Broughton
#Amazement Quotes
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“If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.”
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James Broughton
#Love You Quotes
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“For me, prose walks, poetry dances.”
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James Broughton
#Walks Quotes
#Prose Quotes
#Walking Quotes
