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.
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My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.James Broughton
Acclaim is a distraction.
James Broughton
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.
James Broughton
Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.
James Broughton
The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
James Broughton
I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.
James Broughton
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