Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is..

Life is adventure, not predicament..

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 acti….

We are all participants in the marvelous..

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

It was as important to live poetically as to write poems..

True delicacy is not a fragile thing..

For me, prose walks, poetry dances..

The only limits are, as always, those of vision..

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

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..

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

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

Follow your own weird..

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

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

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

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

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

For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic..

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness..