Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what… — James Broughton Copy Share Image
Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were… — James Broughton Copy Share Image
Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
“Here one is expected to endure, to be both warrior and peacebringer, to be lover and savior and poet and friend. Here… — James Broughton Copy Share Image
My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle… — James Broughton Copy Share Image
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
“Men fear joy too much, fear their instincts. Fear a surrender to their feelings. Fear loving themselves in others and loving others in themselves.… — James Broughton Copy Share
“If all that a stone is expected to be is the stone that it is, why isn't a man expected to be the kind… — James Broughton Copy Share
Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature. — James Broughton Copy Share
Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought… — James Broughton Copy Share
And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts. — James Broughton Copy Share
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 Copy Share
