It just happens that there is more employment for puppeteers in preschool television than anywhere else.
Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.
Art is the consciousness of currency.
To understand an artist is to be a genius.
Unencountered Language is the court and spark between words we recognize and those we don't.
People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the problem - there is no meaning in everything.
It has taken me 20 years to eliminate the unnecessary elements from my work.
If he [the Artist] were to take up the pen it would be. . . to better express his individuality and explain it to others; or else to put his internal affairs in order. . . to deepen and sharpen his relationship with his fellow men because other souls exert an immense and creative influence on our soul; or to try to fight for a world as he would like it to be, for a world that is indispensable to his life.
Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.
One of my favorite activities is just to drive and listen to music - of course, only when there's no traffic.
It was 1943. The U. S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.