It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.
I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.
For me, prose walks, poetry dances.
Life's major challenge: getting reborn often enough.
If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.
And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.