Back doors Quote by Bob Dylan

Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think…

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

I cannot say I'm a poet. That's for someone when they take in consideration where they can bestow 'poet' on. I can't do it.…

— Rodney Crowell

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

— Bob Dylan

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

— David Duchovny

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

— Muhammad Iqbal

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

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

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

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

I've always considered myself a poet in everything that I do, whether it's photography or movie-making.

— Gerard Malanga

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

— Edmund Wilson