James Broughton
James Broughton
James Broughtonwas an American poet and poetic filmmaker. He was part of the San Francisco Renaissance, a precursor to the Beat poets. He was an early bard of the Radical Faeries as well as a member of The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, serving the community as Sister Sermonetta...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth10 November 1913
CountryUnited States of America
love-you ifs
If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.
consciousness awareness glory
Consciousness is the glory of creation.
sadness youth poet
Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
strength delicacy fragile-things
True delicacy is not a fragile thing.
song laughing silence
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.
writing important
It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.
adventure life-is predicaments
Life is adventure, not predicament.
life-is poetic cradle
A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
joy explosions
The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.
want bitterness cookies
If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.
white pages film
My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.
imagination risk enthusiasm
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.
writing order emotion
I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.
trust unique challenges
Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.