“Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.”
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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.
James Broughton 
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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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If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.
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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
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Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.
James Broughton
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