James Broughton Quotes

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James Broughton

Profession : Director

Birth : November 10, 1913

I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.

James Broughton

If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.

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

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

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

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.

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

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.

James Broughton

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

James Broughton

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

James Broughton

The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.

James Broughton

For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.

James Broughton

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

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

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

James Broughton