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“Consciousness is the glory of creation.”
“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.”
“Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.”
“If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.”
“The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.”
“Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.”
“I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.”
“I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.”
“If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.”
“Adversity is a stimulus.”
“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.”
“For me, prose walks, poetry dances.”
“I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.”
“I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.”
“Acclaim is a distraction.”
“Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.”
“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.”
“Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.”
“Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.”
“My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.”