Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.
Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.
In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.
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.
For me, prose walks, poetry dances.
Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.
For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.
A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.
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