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.

Quote by James Broughton

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The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly...

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly...

Adversity is a stimulus.

Adversity is a stimulus.

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they...

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they...

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even...

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even...

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in...

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in...

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred...

Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred...

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all...

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all...

I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.

I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do...

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do...

If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.

If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.

For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it...

For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it...

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life...

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life...

Acclaim is a distraction.

Acclaim is a distraction.

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

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

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.