50 Quotes by James Broughton

Acclaim is a distraction.

Adversity is a stimulus.

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

Life's major challenge: getting reborn often enough.

We are all participants in the marvelous.

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

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