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James Broughton

James Broughton (November 10, 1913 – May 17, 1999) 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 the community as Sister Sermonetta.

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

Motivational, Leadership, Business, Vision, Limits

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

Past, Eternity, Here And Now, Everything, Future, Present

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

Built, Eight, Lantern, Magic, Stage, Toys

Follow your own weird.

Humor, Independence, Follow, Weird

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

Literature, Magic, Music, Poetry, Ultimately

Life's major challenge: getting reborn often enough.

Challenge, Challenges, Enough, Reborn

Acclaim is a distraction.

Madness, Distraction, Acclaim

Consciousness is the glory of creation.

Awareness, Consciousness, Creation, Glory

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

Dances, Poetry, Prose, Walking, Walks

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

Film, Films, Hands, Poems, Writing

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.

Song, Laughing, Silence, Bad, Free

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.

Artist, Unique, Self, Opposite, Fearing, Quite

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

India, France, Denmark, Poet

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

Writing, Order, Emotion, Start, Expansive

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

Astonishing, Joy, Muse, Muses, Whole

At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder.

Bumps, Wonder, Be Prepared, Crossroad, Bump

Life is adventure, not predicament.

Inspirational, Life, Adventure, Predicament

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

Delicacy, Fragile, Fragile Things, Strength, Thing, True

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

Cookies, Want, Bitterness, Offer, Gumdrop

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

Child, Children, Dance, Inspirational, Loved, Movies

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