People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.

- Bayard Taylor

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

- E. M. Forster

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

- David Duchovny

Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?

- Carlos Drummond de Andrade

You don't become a poet if you want to make any money.

- Claudia Rankine

Auden is a poet - no, the poet - of unembarrassed intellect. Ideas are his emotions, emotions are his ideas.

- Cynthia Ozick

I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind.

- Christina Aguilera

Always be a poet, even in prose.

- Charles Baudelaire

I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.

- Carol Ann Duffy

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

- Ben Hecht

This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet.

- Action Bronson

No bad man can be a good poet.

- Boris Pasternak

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.

- Bob Dylan

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

- Anne Stevenson

Oh, I'm a pretty bad poet. This has been corroborated by others.

- Amity Gaige

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.

- Aristophanes

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

- Andre Gide

The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.

- Amiri Baraka

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

- Alice Walker

I am a poet; I am not a worker. I need to be free.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky