Life's major challenge: getting reborn often enough.

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

Life is adventure, not predicament.

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

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

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.

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.