Top 38 Quotes by James Broughton

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

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.

The American public does not know poets exist.

Acclaim is a distraction.

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

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.

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

I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.