Quotes & anectdotes from
the wise,
the foolish,
the courageous &
the drunk

James Broughton Playwright

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Nov 10, 1913
  • Died: May 17, 1999

James Broughton was an American poet and poetic filmmaker. He was part of the San Francisco Renaissance, a precursor to the Beat poets. He was an early bard of the Radical Faeries as well as a member of The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, serving her community as Sister Sermonetta.

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

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

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

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

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

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.

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

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

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

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

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.