For me, prose walks, poetry dances.
Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.
Acclaim is a distraction.
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.
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.