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.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

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.

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