And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.
When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.
I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.
I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.
Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.
Landscape is my religion. ...God in a green legend, I lean over the pool In a testament of leaves. I dangle my twinkling mood Before me in a cool cave roofed with branches And floored with a skin of water.