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Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.
Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.
Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.
In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.
The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.
For me, prose walks, poetry dances.
My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies – as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.