Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.
About James Broughton
James Broughtonwas an American poet and poetic filmmaker. He was part of the San Francisco Renaissance, a precursor to the Beat poets.
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I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
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.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
The American public does not know poets exist.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
Adversity is a stimulus.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
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.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
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.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
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.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies – as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
Acclaim is a distraction.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
I’m happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
If you don’t fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
For me, prose walks, poetry dances.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
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.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
True delicacy is not a fragile thing.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
Consciousness is the glory of creation.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
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.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)
Amazement awaits us at every corner.
American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)