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

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.

The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.

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

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

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.