I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion..

My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls..

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public..

At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder..

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..

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema..

Follow your own weird..

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

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

Amazement awaits us at every corner..

Consciousness is the glory of creation..

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic..

I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside..

Life's major challenge: getting reborn often enough..

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

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

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..

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets..

You're closer to your glory leaping an abyss than re-upholstering a rut..

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