Dead Quote by Jack Kerouac

I want to be a poet, from head to toe, living and dying by poetry.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

I'll be a poet, and you'll be poetry.

— Anonymous

I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet.

— Ogden Nash

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

— Bob Dylan

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

— David Duchovny

Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.

— Alice Notley

Let yourself become living poetry.

— Rumi

I've always tried to be a poet more than anything else. I mean, professional musicians die.

— Cecil Taylor

I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.

— Patti Smith

If you would be a poet, write living newspapers. Be a reporter from outer space, filing dispatches to some supreme managing editor who believes…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“You want to be a poet and not die.”

— Erica Jong

I would feel dead if I didn't have the ability periodically to put my world in order with a poem. I think to be…

— Richard Wilbur