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.

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

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

The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.