James Broughton Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  James Broughton

  Real, Poetry, Would Be

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• For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

  James Broughton

  Walks, Prose, Walking

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

  James Broughton

  Magic, Carrie

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

  James Broughton

  Writing, Issues, Flags

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

  James Broughton

  Joy, Muse, Whole

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

  James Broughton

  Art, Passion, Arguing

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• 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

  Eight, Magic, Toys

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• 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

  Reality, Miracle, Trying

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

  James Broughton

  India, France, Denmark

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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

  Artist, Unique, Self

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• Acclaim is a distraction.

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  Madness, Distraction, Acclaim

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• Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

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  Cinema, Theater, Verses

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

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  Poetry, Magic, Literature

  James Broughton (1990). “Special deliveries: new and selected poems”, Broken Moon Pr

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

  James Broughton

  Writing, Hands, Film

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

  James Broughton

  Spiritual, Practice, Ecstasy

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• 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

  People, Trying, Poet

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• I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.

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  Tough, Fragile

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

  James Broughton

  Inspirational, Dance, Children

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