3 December 2020 James Broughton Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies – as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.
3 December 2020 James Broughton Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.
3 December 2020 James Broughton In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.
3 December 2020 James Broughton Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.
3 December 2020 James Broughton 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.
3 December 2020 James Broughton Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.
3 December 2020 James Broughton My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.
3 December 2020 James Broughton 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.
3 December 2020 James Broughton Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.