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.

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

Acclaim is a distraction.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

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

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.

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