50 Quotes by James Broughton

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

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

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.

If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.

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.

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

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