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

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.

Life's major challenge: getting reborn often enough.

Follow your own weird.

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.

Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.