Acclaim is a distraction.

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.

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

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

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

You're closer to your glory leaping an abyss than re-upholstering a rut.

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.