As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception. Grace Cavalieri More Quotes by Grace Cavalieri More Quotes From Grace Cavalieri I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that were safe to hold what I felt. Grace Cavalieri safe writing world I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that. Grace Cavalieri writing character book Public work does not cut into personal creativity. They are streams from the same river but with different destinations. Grace Cavalieri creativity cutting rivers I get a huge energy transfusion from listening to poets read their works. Grace Cavalieri poet energy listening If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work. Grace Cavalieri sacred hearing doe I am a product of the "Hippie" theater movement of the '60s. Grace Cavalieri theater movement hippie