The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.
More quotes from James Broughton
I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.
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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.
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If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.
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Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.
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I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.
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My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.
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The American public does not know poets exist.
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Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.
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Adversity is a stimulus.
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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. Try it.
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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.
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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.
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For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.
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Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.
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Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
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A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
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The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
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Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies – as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.
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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.
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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.
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The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.
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My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.
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I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.
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Acclaim is a distraction.
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I’m happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.
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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.
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If you don’t fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.
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Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.
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For me, prose walks, poetry dances.
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The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
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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.
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I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.
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True delicacy is not a fragile thing.
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Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.
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Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
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Consciousness is the glory of creation.
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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.
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Amazement awaits us at every corner.
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