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James Broughton
American
Director
Born:
Nov 10
,
1913
Died:
May 17
,
1999
Life
Like
Poetry
Poets
Writing
You
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I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.
James Broughton
Age
Happy
Still
Child
Report
Ageless
Inner
Inner Child
Amazement awaits us at every corner.
James Broughton
Amazing
Every
Corner
Amazement
Us
Awaits
The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
James Broughton
Vision
Those
Only
Always
Limits
Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.
James Broughton
Future
Past
Everything
Still
Happened
Happening
Which
Eternity
Keep
Now
Ever
Present
Here
In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.
James Broughton
World
Few
Promising
Would-Be
Poetry
Poets
Real
Workshop
University
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.
James Broughton
Respect
Poet
France
India
Identified
Denmark
Gracious
Being
Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.
James Broughton
Born
Rarest
Poets
Real
Professors
I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.
James Broughton
Art
Passion
Airing
Arguing
Never
Private
Wanted
Public
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.
James Broughton
Teacher
Risks
Action
Imagination
Tried
Horizons
Enthusiasms
Take
Students
Most
Doing
Were
Stir
Afraid
Acclaim is a distraction.
James Broughton
Distraction
Acclaim
Adversity is a stimulus.
James Broughton
Adversity
Stimulus
Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.
James Broughton
People
Try
Ought
Possessed
Admire
Someone
Poets
Like
Most
Hard
Image
The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.
James Broughton
Joy
Poetry
Explosion
I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.
James Broughton
Tough
Inside
Like
Which
Appear
Things
Fragile
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.
James Broughton
Life
Love
Reality
Try
Invade
Miracle
Poems
Absolute
Absolute Necessity
Allowing
Sing
Make
Happen
Earliest
Necessity
For me, prose walks, poetry dances.
James Broughton
Me
Walks
Dances
Poetry
Prose
And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.
James Broughton
World
Vision
Out
Shakespeare
Parts
Owe
Wherein
Theater
Acting
Humans
I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.
James Broughton
Stage
Magic
Had
Attic
Toy
Built
Eight
Theater
Lantern
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
James Broughton
Spiritual
Me
Practice
Sexual
Spiritual Practice
Poetry
Ecstasy
Much
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