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Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.

Poetry is not an art or a branch of art: it's something more.

It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.

I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.

Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.