I try to avoid calling myself a poet because I think that's something someone else has to call you. It's like bragging. — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
In college I studied essays with a poet, and so I think my interpretation of the genre was always going to be… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not. — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at… — David Markson Copy Share Image
I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds. — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
“But how are you going to get out, into the world of other people? That is your problem now, if I may… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I dream of a collaboration that will become so complete that, often, the poet will think as musician and the musician as… — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on?… — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
I wrote poetry for seven or eight years, maybe longer, before I could say I was a poet. If people asked, I'd… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
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