I'm a poet, and I know it.

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

A poem is a naked person....Some people say that I am a poet.

I am a poet largely because poetry verges closely on mythic power...The fool is the one who insists on his truth to the exclusion of others. And after all, truth, beauty, the very meaning of words-all these are relative values. This is the realm of poetry. However, you could also say that I am a poet as the result of laziness. I am too lazy to write more prose than I do. Prose is like making love to one woman instead of to fifty, which you can do with poetry...Writing should always be a pleasure, spontaneous-like making love.

I am a poet. Poets take the beauty from ashes.

You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.

I guess am a poet because I love to reframe complicated ideas into prose and poems that grab at heartstrings.

a poem is a naked person . . . some people say that I am a poet

I love you, but you don’t understand me, I’m a real poet!
My life is my poetry, my lovemaking is my legacy!

A poet is someone who can use a single image to send a universal message.

I believe that I am a poet of the body and of the mind and of the soul! to mimic Whitman.

Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

What is a poet? A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music… and men crowd about the poet and say to him: “Sing for us soon again”; that is as much to say: May new sufferings torment your soul.