Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature. — James Broughton
And to shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts. — James Broughton
Being identified as a poet in france or denmark or india one is greeted with gracious respect. — James Broughton
Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies – as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater. — James Broughton
Today the u.s. Is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago — James Broughton
I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public. — James Broughton
Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors. — James Broughton
My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images. — James Broughton
Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness. — James Broughton