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
joy explosions
The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.
joyfulness marvelous participants
We are all participants in the marvelous.
joy muse astonishing
The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
american-director
The American public does not know poets exist.
american-director farther hundred nourished poems poetry
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.
american-director rarest
Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.
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.
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.