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

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

Acclaim is a distraction. — James Broughton

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

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

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors. — James Broughton

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

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

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

Life is adventure, not predicament. — James Broughton

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

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

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

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

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

You're closer to your glory leaping an abyss than re-upholstering a rut. — James Broughton

True delicacy is not a fragile thing. — James Broughton

We are all participants in the marvelous. — James Broughton

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open. — 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

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

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

Follow your own weird. — James Broughton

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

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

Adversity is a stimulus. — James Broughton

Consciousness is the glory of creation. — James Broughton

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

Amazement awaits us at every corner. — James Broughton

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

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

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

The American public does not know poets exist. — James Broughton

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

Life's major challenge: getting reborn often enough. — 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

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

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

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be. — James Broughton