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

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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 would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

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"I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand."

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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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"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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"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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