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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 was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker."
"I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try."
"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."
"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
"I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant."
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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."
"I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic."
"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."
"And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts."
"Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness."
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