James Broughton Quotes

• 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.

  James Broughton

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

  James Broughton

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

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

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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.

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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

• For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

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

  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

• 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.

  James Broughton

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

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• Consciousness is the glory of creation.

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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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• 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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• Amazement awaits us at every corner.

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• Adversity is a stimulus.

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• Acclaim is a distraction.

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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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• Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

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James Broughton (39)

Birth:	10th November, 1913
Death:	17th May, 1999
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Filmmaker, Poet, Screenwriter

About

James Broughton was born in Modesto, California, USA. He was an American poet and poetic filmmaker. He was part of the San Francisco Renaissance, a precursor to the Beat poets. He spent his childhood in San Francisco and attended Stanford University until just before his class graduated in 1935. In 1945, he won the Alden Award given by the Stanford Dramatists' Alliance for his original screenplay "Summer Fury." He wrote several books include: A Long Undressing(poem), Seeing the Light, Song of the Godbody(poem), Making Light of it, Coming Unbuttoned(Nominations: Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Autobiography), Little Sermons of the Big Joy(poem), and Packing Up for Paradise(Nominations: Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Poetry). He directed several films include: Mother's Day(Nominations: BAFTA Special Award), The Pleasure Garden(also screenwriter), The Bed, and Dreamwood(also screenwriter).

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