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

Acclaim is a distraction.

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

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

Life is adventure, not predicament.

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

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