Quotes by James Broughton

About James Broughton:

James Broughton was an American poet and poetic filmmaker. He was part of the San Francisco Renaissance, a precursor to the Beat poets. He was an early bard of the Radical Faeries as well as a member of The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, serving her community as Sister Sermonetta.
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I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

James Broughton

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

James Broughton

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

James Broughton

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

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

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

James Broughton

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

James Broughton

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

James Broughton

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

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

James Broughton

Consciousness is the glory of creation.

James Broughton

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

James Broughton

I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.

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

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

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

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

James Broughton

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

James Broughton

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

James Broughton

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

James Broughton

Author Bio

  • NameJames Broughton
  • DescriptionAmerican poet and filmmaker
  • BornNovember 10, 1913
  • DiedMay 17, 1999
  • CountryUnited States Of America