Top 59 Broughton Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Broughton

#1. What I carry in my backpack down to the river, I carry not knowing that in less than an hour Thomas Broughton will be dead. That is not a knowledge I carry yet, but I will carry it soon - the knowledge of my darkest self - and I will carry it forever.

Jenny Hubbard

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

James Broughton

#3. Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.

James Broughton

#4. You are brilliant. Low-self-esteem will never haunt you again. Be all that you can be. Know your purpose! Every trial will turn into a victory. You must speak that thing into existence and never give up.

Alisha Broughton

#5. 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

#6. I must try and be good, or clever, or eccentric, for it was very evident that pretty I could never be

Rhoda Broughton

#7. I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

James Broughton

#8. I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.

James Broughton

#9. It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.

James Broughton

#10. You're closer to your glory leaping an abyss than re-upholstering a rut.

James Broughton

#11. Amazement awaits us at every corner.

James Broughton

#12. Never much of a fantasy fan, I knew one thing for certain: Odell Greenry loved Precious every bit as much as Gollum loved his "precious." And while both objects of obsession could be possessed neither could be mastered.

Mandy Broughton

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

James Broughton

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

James Broughton

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

James Broughton

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

James Broughton

#17. Relaxing in the sun was my cup of tea. I'm a champion relaxer and have won numerous prizes in do-nothing competitions. To maintain my competitive edge I need to keep in touch with the updates in relaxing techniques.

Lance Broughton

#18. We are all participants in the marvelous.

James Broughton

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

James Broughton

#20. For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

James Broughton

#21. 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

#22. The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.

James Broughton

#23. My hurt has pushed me into my destiny! I was created for this.

Alisha Broughton

#24. I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

James Broughton

#25. The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

James Broughton

#26. A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.

James Broughton

#27. Life is adventure, not predicament.

James Broughton

#28. Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.

James Broughton

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

James Broughton

#30. Acclaim is a distraction.

James Broughton

#31. The American public does not know poets exist.

James Broughton

#32. If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

James Broughton

#33. Adversity is a stimulus.

James Broughton

#34. Love is the key to a massive change. Love unconditionally and everything else will fall in place. Love is like a medicine that cures all pain.

Alisha Broughton

#35. Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.

James Broughton

#36. When you are at your lowest, look up!

Alisha Broughton

#37. For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.

James Broughton

#38. 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

#39. Nothing good comes from hiding in
the shadows

David A. Broughton

#40. At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder.

James Broughton

#41. And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

James Broughton

#42. Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

James Broughton

#43. 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.

James Broughton

#44. Victory lives within you. Find power within you, even in your weakest hour. There is nothing that you can not overcome. Speak it out of your mouth and the situation will turn around. Speak things as though they were. It's already done!

Alisha Broughton

#45. The girl from the front row grabbed AIMii on the arm. "Remember, it's bumpy."
"Why is the color of silence bumpy?" AIMii asked.
"Because it's hard to do," she whispered loudly.

Mandy Broughton

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

James Broughton

#47. 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.

James Broughton

#48. Consciousness is the glory of creation.

James Broughton

#49. True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

James Broughton

#50. We can do all things! All things are possible. Never doubt who you are or whose you are. You were created with greatness!

Alisha Broughton

#51. 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