The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.

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A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.

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Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.

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I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.

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I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.

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Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.

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Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.

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Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

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I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

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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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