Bulbs Quote by Bob Dylan

I don't know if I call myself a poet or not. I would like to, but I'm not really qualified to make that decision,…

— Bob Dylan

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

— Bob Dylan

I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple…

— Bo Burnham

“A poet is somebody who has written a poem.”

— Wallace Stegner

I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a…

— Edward Hirsch

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought…

— James Broughton

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

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

— Bob Dylan

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

— Edmund Wilson

Who, except the poets, reads poetry?

— Babette Deutsch

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is…

— Leonard Cohen

It's a big thing to call yourself a poet. All I can say is that I have always written poems. I don't think I'm…

— Clive James