Quotes About Expression

They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

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

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.

My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet.

I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.'

I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your head is left free.

I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it was sheer lunacy. It's part of the process of selection.

The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.

I'm a poet first and foremost, before the modelling.

If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!

I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears.

I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a year. Totally deluded.

I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.

If you want to be a poet, you can just write it on a napkin, and it's the length of the napkin, I guess. But usually you decide you'll rhyme it, or you'll have a formula. In radio, that's something called, 'Close your eyes and listen.'

You don't become a poet if you want to make any money.

It's absolutely crucial to maintain my life as a poet.

The attention one gets from being a poet isn't great.

The poet has no greater number of muscles than the ordinary conversationalist; he merely has more highly developed muscles and better coordination. And he practises his activity according to a stricter set of rules.

A novelist can get by on story, but the poet has nothing but the words.

When you put a poem on a Kindle, the lines are broken in order to fit on the screen. And so instead of being the poet's decision, it becomes the device's decision.