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 action.
I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.
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.
Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.
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, you are free to die laughing.
If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.
Consciousness is the glory of creation.
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.
Adversity is a stimulus.
A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.
I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.
Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.