James Broughton Quotes

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James Broughton

Profession : Director

Birth : November 10, 1913

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.

James Broughton

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

James Broughton

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

James Broughton

Consciousness is the glory of creation.

James Broughton

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

James Broughton

Acclaim is a distraction.

James Broughton

My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.

James Broughton

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

James Broughton

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.

James Broughton

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

James Broughton

The American public does not know poets exist.

James Broughton

Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.

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.

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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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Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.

James Broughton

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.

James Broughton

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.

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Adversity is a stimulus.

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.

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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.

James Broughton