I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.
Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.
Amazement awaits us at every corner.
The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.
True delicacy is not a fragile thing.
The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.
My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.
Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.
My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.
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.
Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.
The American public does not know poets exist.
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.
I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.
Consciousness is the glory of creation.
In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.
Acclaim is a distraction.
Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
