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James Broughton

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


— James Broughton


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The only limits are, as always, those of vision.


— James Broughton


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The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.


— James Broughton


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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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True delicacy is not a fragile thing.


— James Broughton


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I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.


— James Broughton


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Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.


— James Broughton


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


— James Broughton


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" His gravestone in a Port Townsend cemetery reads "Adventure – not predicament. "The Selected Films of James Broughton" is a DVD compilation of seventeen films on 3 discs released in 2006 by Facets Multimedia. He died in May 1999 with champagne on his lips in the house in Port Townsend Washington where he and Joel lived for 10 years.

He was part of the San Francisco Renaissance. James Broughton (November 10 1913 – May 17 1999) was an American poet and poetic filmmaker.

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