James Broughton quotes

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open. (James Broughton)
Amazement awaits us at every corner. View quote
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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. View quote
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If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life. View quote
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I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless. View quote
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The only limits are, as always, those of vision. View quote
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True delicacy is not a fragile thing. View quote
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Consciousness is the glory of creation. View quote
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Adversity is a stimulus. View quote
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A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living. View quote
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I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion. (James Broughton)
My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images. View quote
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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. View quote
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The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy. View quote
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If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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For me, prose walks, poetry dances. View quote
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For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic. View quote
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Acclaim is a distraction. (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. View quote
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Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater. View quote
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My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls. View quote
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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. View quote
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James Broughton

James Broughton - Image
Photo: Joel Singer, CC BY-SA 3.0
Occupation: American Director
Born: November 10, 1913
Died: May 17, 1999
Quotes count: 33