James Broughton Quotes

“Birdle Burble


I went out of mind and then came to my senses

By meeting a magpie who mixed up his tenses,

Who muddled distinctions of nouns and of verbs,

And insisted that logic is bad for the birds.

With a poo-wee cluck and a chit, chit-chit;

The grammar and meaning don't matter a bit.



The stars in their courses have no destination;

The train of events will arrive at no station;

The inmost and ultimate Self of us all

Is dancing on nothing and having a ball.

So with a chat for chit and with tat for tit,

This will be that, and that will be It!

(poem for James Broughton)”
― Alan Watts