James Broughton Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.”
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“At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder.”
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“The only limits are, as always, those of vision.”
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“Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.”
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“I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.”
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“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.”
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“My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.”
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“A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.”
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“It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.”
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“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.”
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“The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.”
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“If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.”
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“Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.”
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“Life's major challenge: getting reborn often enough.”
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“Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.”
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“Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.”
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“For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.”
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“I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.”
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“I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.”
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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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“Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.”
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“We are all participants in the marvelous.”
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“And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.”
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“I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.”
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“If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.”
-- James Broughton
