Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

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

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

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they...

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they...

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

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

I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.

I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in...

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in...

The American public does not know poets exist.

The American public does not know poets exist.

My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade...

My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade...

Adversity is a stimulus.

Adversity is a stimulus.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even...

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even...

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

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

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

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

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

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.