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

Acclaim is a distraction.
James Broughton

Adversity is a stimulus.
James Broughton

Amazement awaits us at every corner.
James Broughton

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

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

Consciousness is the glory of creation.
James Broughton

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

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.
James Broughton

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


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

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.
James Broughton

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

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

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

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

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

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.
James Broughton

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

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