Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.
For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.
I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.
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.
Acclaim is a distraction.
I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.