If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.
- James Broughton
Cookie, Act, Offer, Bitterness
I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.
- James Broughton
Writing, Start, Emotion, Excite
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
Being, Hundred, Farther, Nourished
Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
- James Broughton
Sadness, More, Rewarding, Gladness
I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.
- James Broughton
Age, Inner Child, Still, Report
Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.
- James Broughton
Work, Theater, Sharpened, Verse
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
Desire, Some, Shrink, Fearing
The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
- James Broughton
Vision, Always, Only, Limits
Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.
- James Broughton
Trust, Individual, Open
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
Someone, Image, Most, Ought
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, Die, Perfectly, Laughing
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.
- James Broughton
France, Poet, Denmark, Identified
Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.
- James Broughton
Real, Born, Professors, Rarest
The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
- James Broughton
Gift, Most, Receive, Muses
True delicacy is not a fragile thing.
- James Broughton
True, Fragile, Thing, Fragile Thing
For me, prose walks, poetry dances.
- James Broughton
Me, Prose, Walks, Dances
Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.
- James Broughton
Movies, Loved, Drama, Vaudeville
Consciousness is the glory of creation.
- James Broughton
Glory, Consciousness, Creation
Acclaim is a distraction.
- James Broughton
Distraction, Acclaim
And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.
- James Broughton
Vision, Out, Wherein, Shakespeare
For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.
- James Broughton
Magic, Poem, Itself, Carries
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
- James Broughton
Me, Practice, Ecstasy, Sexual
Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.
- James Broughton
Here, Eternity, Which, Present
Adversity is a stimulus.
- James Broughton
Adversity, Stimulus
The American public does not know poets exist.
- James Broughton
Exist, Public, Does, Poets
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
World, University, Workshop, Poets
I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.
- James Broughton
Like, Things, Which, Appear
My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.
- James Broughton
Aim, Set, Major, Calls
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
Magic, Stage, Built, Attic
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
Teacher, Doing, Students, Enthusiasms
If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.
- James Broughton
Love, Days, Wasting, Love You
The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.
- James Broughton
Joy, Poetry, Explosion
I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.
- James Broughton
Art, Never, Private, Airing
A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
- James Broughton
Worth Living, Poetic, His, Poet
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
Love, Happen, Invade, Necessity
I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.
- James Broughton
Writing, Personal, Films, Poems
My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.
- James Broughton
Films, Extension, Using, Page
Amazement awaits us at every corner.
- James Broughton
Amazing, Amazement, Awaits, Corner
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