James Broughton Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.”

“In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.”

“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.”

“My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.”

“The American public does not know poets exist.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”