Poet Identity Quotes

In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is only a poet at the moment when he is making his last revision to a new poem. The moment before, he was still only a potential poet; the moment after, he is a man who has ceased to write poetry, perhaps forever.

Who could imagine a poet wearing anything other than black?

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 interested in any discussion about whether I'm a good poet, a bad poet or a great poet. But I am sure, I want to write great poems. I think every poet should want that.

I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of 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.

A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.

Although I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet.

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

I shall, in due time, be a Poet.