50 Quotes by James Broughton

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

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

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

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.

Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.

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

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.