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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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James Broughton
Age: 85 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 10
Died: 1999
Died: May 17
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If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.
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Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.
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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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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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Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
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At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder.
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The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.
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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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Consciousness is the glory of creation.
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I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.
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The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
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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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