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

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

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

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.

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.

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