James Broughton Quotes
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Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
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Acclaim is a distraction.
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Life's major challenge: getting reborn often enough.
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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.
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Adversity is a stimulus.
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Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.
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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.
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At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder.
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A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
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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.
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Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
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I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.
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True delicacy is not a fragile thing.
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For me, prose walks, poetry dances.
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Amazement awaits us at every corner.
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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.
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Follow your own weird.
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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.
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I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.
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For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.
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If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.
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Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.
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And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.
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Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.
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My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.
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You're closer to your glory leaping an abyss than re-upholstering a rut.
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We are all participants in the marvelous.
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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.
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I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.
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The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.
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