Follow your own weird.
At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder.
The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.
A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.
True delicacy is not a fragile thing.
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.
My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.
If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.
It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.
Life is adventure, not predicament.
Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.