Of course, everyone wants to be mythologized in a great way.
Empty the pond to get the fish.
My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.
When a sound can replace an image, cut the image or neutralize it. The ear goes more towards the within, the eye towards the outer.
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
The ear is profound, whereas the eye is frivolous, too easily satisfied. The ear is active, imaginative, whereas the eye is passive. When you hear a noise at night, instantly you imagine its cause. The sound of a train whistle conjures up the whole station. The eye can perceive only what is presented to it.
When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.
Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.
In real self-giving we are inspired. Whether they acknowledge us or not is not important.
I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve that, either. So I'll keep it.
If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child's soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man's wisdom for the child's.