Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.

Weep for the lives your wishes never led.

Each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.

Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.

Drama began as the act of a whole community. Ideally, there would be no speculators. In practice, every member of the audience should feel like an understudy.

I just try to put the thing out and hope somebody will read it. Someone says: 'Whom do you write for?' I reply: 'Do you read me?' If they say 'Yes,' I say, 'Do you like it?' If they say 'No,' then I say, 'I don't write for you.'

Our claim to our own bodies and our world is our catastrophe.