James Broughton Quotes - Page 2

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

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

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

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

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

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

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.

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

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.

Acclaim is a distraction.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.

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

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.

I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.

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