Quotes By James Broughton
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
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.
James Broughton
Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.
James Broughton
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.
James Broughton
Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
James Broughton
I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.
James Broughton
Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.
James Broughton
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.
James Broughton
And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.
James Broughton