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James Broughton

"I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public."

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Akiroq Brost

"The proper stuff of fiction does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon no perception comes amiss. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her as well as honour and love her for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured."

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Akiroq Brost

"I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed."

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Akiroq Brost

"Music gives life to the soul."

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Akiroq Brost

"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

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Akiroq Brost

"I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language."

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Akiroq Brost

"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

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Akiroq Brost

"I see my life in terms of music."

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Akiroq Brost

"Professing not to care is a primordial defense mechanism. Whenever a person finds oneself mired in failure and despondency, rebelling is a viable option to preserve false personal pride."

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Akiroq Brost

"Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer."

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"Consciousness is the glory of creation."
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"My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls."
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"The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric."
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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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"Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema."
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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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"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."
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"For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic."
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