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

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.

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 action.

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

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.

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

Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.

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

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.