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.
If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.
For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.
If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.
Adversity is a stimulus.