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I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.

I am a revolutionary, so my son can be a farmer, so his son can be a poet.

I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor pem

I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.

I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened.

I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.

I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.

I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I wanted to be a poem.

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

I'd better be a poet Or lay down dead.

I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!

I'd like to imagine that "dreamoir" becomes a subgenre of nonfiction, maybe ultimately because I'd love to read many more dreamoirs by other writers - poets and memoirists especially.

If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.

I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word.

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.

I don't like the stigma that comes with being called a poet . . . So I call what I'm doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.

I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet.

I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet.

If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet.

I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.

I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets.

If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars. [Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris, Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]

If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.

If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.

If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.

If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved.

If you're a poet and you're using rhyme, rhyme generates ideas. If you're a songwriter and you're using melody and words together, they bounce off each other in interesting ways that you couldn't get otherwise, because you do things unexpectedly.

I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.

I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

I hear poetry whenever I turn on the radio. Eminem is a better poet than just about everybody. He's better than Billy Collins; he's better than Richard Wilbur; he's better than me.

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.

I know as well as thee that I am no poet born It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could learn If I make verses-'tis in spite Of nature and my stars I write.

Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.

I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.

I'll be a poet, and you'll be poetry.

I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.

I'm about fifty years behind as far as my preferences go and I must say that the poets who excite me most are the Americans. There are very few contemporary English poets that I admire.

[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.

I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations.

I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he is to me.

Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.