I'm no novelist.Or anything else, I suppose, except, just possibly a poet, once in a while.

I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

Never write prose when you can write poetry.

And since, I never dare to write
As funny as I can.

She lives in the poetry she cannot write.

I'll never be a poet,' said Amory as he finished. 'I'm not enough of a sensualist really; there are only a few obvious things that I notice as primarily beautiful: women, spring evenings, music at night, the sea; I don't catch the subtle things like 'silver-snarling trumpets.' I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never right anything but mediocre poetry.

Ser poeta não é uma ambição minha. É a minha maneira de estar sózinho.

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

I'm very much aware I can't think. I'm a poet.

He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry — it is he who is a poet.

A man must pretend not to be a writer.

My life has been the poem I would have writ,
But I could not both live and utter it.

Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,” I say, taking another step forward.
“You never were a poet, were you, Todd?” he says.