American - Director | November 10, 1913 - May 17, 1999
My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.
James Broughton
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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.
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For me, prose walks, poetry dances.
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Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.
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I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.
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My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.
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I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.
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Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.
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I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.
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The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
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For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.
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Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
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