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I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

~James Broughton

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If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

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The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.

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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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Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

~James Broughton

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Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.

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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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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: November 10th, 1913

Died: May 17th, 1999

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