James Broughton Quotes

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

At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

You're closer to your glory leaping an abyss than re-upholstering a rut.

Follow your own weird.

Consciousness is the glory of creation.

Life's major challenge: getting reborn often enough.

Adversity is a stimulus.

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

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.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

We are all participants in the marvelous.

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.

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

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.

Life is adventure, not predicament.

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

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.

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.

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.

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