You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

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

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.

I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.