14 Quotes By James Broughton


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

Amazement awaits us at every corner.
James Broughton on amazing

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

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 on imagination

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

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

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

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 on poetry

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 on poetry

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

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

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

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

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 on truth