Não tenho ambições nem desejos
Ser poeta não é uma ambição minha
É a minha maneira de estar sozinho.

I have no ambitions nor desires.
To be a poet is not my ambition,
It's simply my way of being alone.

أن أكون شاعراً ليس ما أطمح إليه ، ولكنها طريقتي كي أكون وحيدًا

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.

I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.

And I'm not a poet: but never despair!
I'll madly live the poems I shall never write.

lo que sería peor, hacerse poeta; que, según dicen, es enfermedad incurable y pegadiza.

Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness."

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

The poet does not use poetry, but is at the service of poetry. To use it is to misuse it.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

He who has no poetry in himself will find poetry in nothing.

Poetry is neither a mystery nor a symbol nor a demon. Poetry is nothing more than a lonely consolation for the owner of a sickly soul and a man of solitude.

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.