James Broughton

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

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

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

Adversity is a stimulus.

The American public does not know poets exist.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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