Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.
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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.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.
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True delicacy is not a fragile thing.
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If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.
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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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