For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

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

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

Life's major challenge: getting reborn often enough.

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.

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.