All James Broughton Quotes
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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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
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If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.
James Broughton
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My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.
James Broughton
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Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.
James Broughton
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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
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Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
James Broughton
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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.
James Broughton
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My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.
James Broughton
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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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Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
James Broughton
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My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.
James Broughton
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