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

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

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

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

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.