All James Broughton Quotes
- Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature. From
- Life's major challenge: getting reborn often enough. Challenge
- Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is. Ecstasy
- A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living. Born
- Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect. Denmark
- My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images. Extension
- For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic. Carries
- I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside. Appear
- I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public. Airing
- In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets. Few
- Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema. Cinema
- The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy. Explosion
- True delicacy is not a fragile thing. Delicacy
- It was as important to live poetically as to write poems. Important
- The only limits are, as always, those of vision. Business
- The American public does not know poets exist. American
- 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. Ago
- Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors. Born
- 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… Admire
- Only your vision can limit you. Limit