"Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite."
-James Broughton
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"I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.“
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"Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open."
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"Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect."
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"For me, prose walks, poetry dances."
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"The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy."
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"In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets."
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