Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.

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

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.

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.

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

If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.

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