James Broughton Quotes

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• I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.
• Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.
• 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…
• I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.
• Amazement awaits us at every corner.
• The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
• If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.
• For me, prose walks, poetry dances.
• 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…
• Life is adventure, not predicament.
• Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
• My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.
• Consciousness is the glory of creation.
• Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.
• 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.…
• If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.
• I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.
• I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the 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…
• Adversity is a stimulus.

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