Acclaim is a distraction.

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

Follow your own weird.

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

My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.

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.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.