Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.

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

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

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.

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

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.