Quotes James Broughton

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the on...

Acclaim is a distraction....

Adversity is a stimulus....

Amazement awaits us at every corner....

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater...

Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one...

Consciousness is the glory of creation....

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everyt...

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turn...

Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, pres...

For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it c...

For me, prose walks, poetry dances....

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as ...

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eigh...

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

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by a...

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotio...

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students ...

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

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

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

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop po...

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I fin...

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone th...

My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing...