Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

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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...

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

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

Adversity is a stimulus.

Adversity is a stimulus.

Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred...

Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred...

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

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

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

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...

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets,...

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets,...

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

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

Acclaim is a distraction.

Acclaim is a distraction.

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white...

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white...

Consciousness is the glory of creation.

Consciousness is the glory of creation.

I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.

I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.

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

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

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all...

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all...

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...

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a...

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a...

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...

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing...

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing...