And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

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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.

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Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.

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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.

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In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

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I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

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My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.

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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.

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Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.

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