Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I think it's the greatest art.

Art... reacts to or reflects the culture it springs from.

And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins.

What I'm trying to do is to tell young people that I teach them how to breathe before I teach the haiku. That one breath, that one breath, because the haiku keeps you alive. It keeps you going. If you learn how to breath the haiku, you learn how to breathe. If you learn how to breathe, you're much healthier.

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The words loved me and I loved them in return.