Broughton Quotes & Sayings

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless. — James Broughton

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

Nothing good comes from hiding in
the shadows — David A. Broughton

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

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

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

A gospel which contains judgement as a prominent strand, as does the New Testament gospel, is relevant to men and women everywhere and in every age and culture. It does not need indigenization,57 so popular a catchword today, but requires only clarity of language and faithfulness in proclamation. The sense of right and wrong is universal in the human race and so is the knowledge that we fall below our own standards of what is right, and that this entails death. — Broughton Knox

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop. — James Broughton

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

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

Amazement awaits us at every corner. — James Broughton

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

Consciousness is the glory of creation. — James Broughton

Follow your own weird. — James Broughton

For me, prose walks, poetry dances. — James Broughton

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

No matter what it looks like or seems like. There is hope at the end of the tunnel. Think smart and plan for your future. Your words are power. Your thoughts are dynamite and your life can make a major difference for someone else. You are above and not beneath. You are the head and not the tail. See hope in everything that you do because you are filled with major purpose. Giving up is not an option and living life to the fullest is a major choice. Choose to be happy! Live for tomorrow. — Alisha Broughton

The Adventures of Dickson McCunn, Adam Bede, Eric or Little by Little, these and many others, old and new, good bad and indifferent were grist to Duggie's mill. He found a novel by Rhoda Broughton entitled Not Wisely But Too Well and read it all through. He read an abridged version of Robinson Crusoe, and Under Two Flags and Coral Island with equal concentration. He read Little Women and Wuthering Heights. Cheyney he found difficult, for the people seemed to speak an unfamiliar language, but he struggled on manfully all the same. Needless — D.E. Stevenson

Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature. — James Broughton

The only limits are, as always, those of vision. — James Broughton

Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect. — James Broughton

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

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

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

You're closer to your glory leaping an abyss than re-upholstering a rut. — James Broughton

Life is adventure, not predicament. — James Broughton

When you are at your lowest, look up! — Alisha Broughton

We are all participants in the marvelous. — James Broughton

Life's major challenge: getting reborn often enough. — James Broughton

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made. — James Broughton

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

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

The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric. — James Broughton

My hurt has pushed me into my destiny! I was created for this. — Alisha Broughton

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

True delicacy is not a fragile thing. — James Broughton

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

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

For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic. — James Broughton

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

At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder. — James Broughton

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

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy. — James Broughton

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

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living. — James Broughton

Live life like it's your last day. Make every minute count. For tomorrow is not promised. Live in the moment. — Alisha Broughton

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

Jim had spent most of his life alone. The solitary nature of his disability and the constant moving had made it difficult for him to make friends. With his mother's death,
his last connection to a person was severed. He existed in Broughton like a ghost, doing his odd jobs, too silent for anyone to notice. — Bonnie Dee

I was camped at the same site as her: Broughton Farm. She came over to my tent and showed me her blisters. She asked me whether I knew the reason why a blister can keep on producing fluid ad infinitum. I said that I had always wondered the same thing about mucus. One of the reasons we are together is because we have similar interests. — Joe Dunthorne

Acclaim is a distraction. — James Broughton

It was as important to live poetically as to write poems. — James Broughton

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

The American public does not know poets exist. — James Broughton

Adversity is a stimulus. — James Broughton

I must try and be good, or clever, or eccentric, for it was very evident that pretty I could never be — Rhoda Broughton

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open. — James Broughton

I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside. — James Broughton

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema. — James Broughton

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public. — James Broughton

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

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

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

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

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