James Broughton Quotes

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

Age, Happy, Child

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.
James Broughton

Trust, Yourself, Individual

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

Bitterness, Act, Wants

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

Truth, Matter, Desire

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.
James Broughton

Poetry, Films, White

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
James Broughton

Poetry, Spiritual, Practice

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.
James Broughton

Writing, Personal, Films

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

Joy, Whole, Gift

Amazement awaits us at every corner.
James Broughton

Amazing, Corner, Amazement

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
James Broughton

Life, Living, Worth

Acclaim is a distraction.
James Broughton

Adversity is a stimulus.
James Broughton

Adversity, Stimulus

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.
James Broughton

Acting, Vision, Theater

Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.
James Broughton

Respect, India, Poet

Consciousness is the glory of creation.
James Broughton

Creation, Glory

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.
James Broughton

Movies, Dance, Child

Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.
James Broughton

Future, Past, Keep

For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.
James Broughton

Magic, Sing, Poem

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.
James Broughton

Poetry, Prose, Dances

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

Magic, Stage, Theater

I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.
James Broughton

Tough, Inside, Appear

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

Art, Passion, Wanted

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.
James Broughton

Writing, Start, Often

If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.
James Broughton

Life, Love, Days

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.
James Broughton

Poetry, Real, Few

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: November 10, 1913

Died: May 17, 1999

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