Occupation: Poet Birth: November 10, 1913 Death: May 17, 1999
My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images..
It was as important to live poetically as to write poems..
I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless..
Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater..
Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now..
For me, prose walks, poetry dances..
The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy..
True delicacy is not a fragile thing..
The only limits are, as always, those of vision..
I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made..
Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature..
Acclaim is a distraction..
If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop..
We are all participants in the marvelous..
Life is adventure, not predicament..
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 ….
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect..
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….
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 ….
Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, ….
Adversity is a stimulus..