Quotes from James Broughton

How do you look upon other men as astonishing organisms? Only by so regarding yourself.

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

Why am I really here? To hide myself away or to burst open?

If all that a stone is expected to be is the stone that it is, why isn't a man expected to be the kind of man that he is instead of someone's idea of what man he should be?

Everything has always been here one way or another. So it must know what it's doing. And since I am part of this everything, a good part of me must be all right just the way it is, and the way it's doing it.

I felt in holy vibration to things around me

Here one is expected to endure, to be both warrior and peacebringer, to be lover and savior and poet and friend. Here one is to be dedicated to the service of enlightening.

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

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

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

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

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

It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.

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

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

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.

Follow your own weird.

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

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

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

The American public does not know poets exist.

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.

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

Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.