I began as a journalist for my pocketbook and a poet for my soul.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature.
The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank.
God is the perfect poet.
I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet.
The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that's what publication does.
In the fall of 1963, in Leningrad, in what was then the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the young poet Dmitry Bobyshev stole the young poet Joseph Brodsky's girlfriend.
I saw an amazing film when I was 16 called 'Slam'. It's about a spoken-word poet. Saul Williams is in it.
They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.
It is tiring to be Turkish. The country is badly polarised, bitterly politicized. Every writer, journalist, poet knows that because of an article, a novel, an interview, a poem or a tweet you can be sued, put on trial, even arrested. Self-censorship is widespread.
I love Roald Dahl, Sharon Olds, Nizar Qabbani, who is a poet, and Junot Diaz.
I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.
To a poet, it's quite ruinous to have a poem distorted, out of shape, or squeezed, shall we say, into this tiny screen. But I'm not sure big digital companies are sensitive to the needs of poets.
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
There is nothing odder than to apply an analytical device to a synthetic phenomenon: for instance, to write in English about a Russian poet.
I did not start out thinking I'm going to become a feminist poet. It was a tag I was given.
Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.
