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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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

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

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

James Broughton

It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.

James Broughton

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

James Broughton

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

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

James Broughton

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

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

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

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

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

James Broughton

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

James Broughton

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

James Broughton

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

James Broughton

Author Bio

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