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Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.

But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.

My work should be seen as poetry.

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.

The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm very doubtful about the usefulness of poetry to do that.

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.