“To discern what is truly essential we need space to think, time to look and listen, permission to play, wisdom to sleep, and the discipline to apply highly selective criteria to the choices we make.”
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“No claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe.”
“If several directions seem captivating, consider crafting more than one experiment at a time. Working on several often brings about a healthy sense of detachment.”
“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.”
“For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.”
“I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it produces a story, not the other way about normally.”
“In such ‘fantasy’, as it is called, new form is made; Faerie begins; Man becomes a sub-creator.”
“For me, the adventures of the mind, each inflection of thought, each movement, nuance, growth, discovery, is a source of exhilaration.”
“Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.”
“They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”