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

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

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 think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

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

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