James Broughton famous quotes

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

#Children #Child Abuse #Aging

At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder.
-- James Broughton

#Bumps #Wonder #Be Prepared

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
-- James Broughton

#Business #Vision #Limits

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

#Trust #Challenges #Individual

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

#Writing #Order #Emotion

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

#Imagination #Risk #Horizon

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

#White #Pages #Film

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

#Poetic #Life Is #Cradle

Life is adventure, not predicament.
-- James Broughton

#Adventure #Life Is #Predicaments

It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.
-- James Broughton

#Writing #Important

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

#Song #Laughing #Silence

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.
-- James Broughton

#Joy #Explosions

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

#Cookies #Want #Bitterness

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.
-- James Broughton

#Strength #Delicacy #Fragile Things

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

#Spiritual #Practice #Ecstasy

Life's major challenge: getting reborn often enough.
-- James Broughton

#Challenges #Enough #Reborn

Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.
-- James Broughton

#Poetry #Magic #Literature

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

#India #France #Denmark

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

#Magic

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

#Tough

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

#Art #Passion #Arguing

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

#Real #Poetry #Would Be

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.
-- James Broughton

#Cinema #Theater #Verses

We are all participants in the marvelous.
-- James Broughton

#Joyfulness

Follow your own weird.
-- James Broughton

#Humor

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

#Vision #Acting #World

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

#Writing #Hands #Film

Amazement awaits us at every corner.
-- James Broughton

#Amazement

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

#Love You

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.
-- James Broughton

#Walks #Prose #Walking

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

#Joy #Muse

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
-- James Broughton

#Sadness #Youth #Poet

My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.
-- James Broughton

#Writing #Issues #Flags

Consciousness is the glory of creation.
-- James Broughton

#Consciousness #Awareness #Glory

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

#Reality #Miracle #Trying

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

#Eight #Magic #Toys

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

#Dance #Children #Drama

Adversity is a stimulus.
-- James Broughton

#Adversity #Stimulus

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

#Past #Eternity #Here And Now

Acclaim is a distraction.
-- James Broughton

#Madness #Distraction #Acclaim

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

#Artist #Unique #Self