James Broughton

If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life. ↗

— James Broughton

#fill #life #love #wasting #you

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open. ↗

— James Broughton

#challenges #individual #lay #open #trusting

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

— James Broughton

#bitterness #cookie #get #i #into

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

— James Broughton

#cradle #his #knows #life #living

Acclaim is a distraction. ↗

— James Broughton

#distraction

Adversity is a stimulus. ↗

— James Broughton

#stimulus

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts. ↗

— James Broughton

#humans #i #out #owe #parts

Amazement awaits us at every corner. ↗

— James Broughton

#amazement #awaits #corner #every #us

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

— James Broughton

#denmark #france #gracious #greeted #identified

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

#create #desire #destroy #even #fearing