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James Broughton

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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.


— James Broughton


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


— James Broughton


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Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.


— James Broughton


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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.


— James Broughton


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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.


— James Broughton


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My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.


— James Broughton


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


— James Broughton


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


— James Broughton


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


— James Broughton


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The American public does not know poets exist.


— James Broughton


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" His gravestone in a Port Townsend cemetery reads "Adventure – not predicament. "The Selected Films of James Broughton" is a DVD compilation of seventeen films on 3 discs released in 2006 by Facets Multimedia. He died in May 1999 with champagne on his lips in the house in Port Townsend Washington where he and Joel lived for 10 years.

He was part of the San Francisco Renaissance. James Broughton (November 10 1913 – May 17 1999) was an American poet and poetic filmmaker.

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