The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.

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

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.

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

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.