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
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
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