Bragging Quote by Dorianne Laux

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

— Bob Dylan

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 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

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

— Bernie Taupin

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

— Gerard Malanga

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

— William Hughes Mearns

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

Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if they were…

— Wislawa Szymborska

For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.

— Philip Pullman