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Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's party and know it. — Philip Pullman

All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do. — John Trudell

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems. — Tony Buzan

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

In truth, I'm still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I'd rather say, I make poems. — Henri Cole

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

I am a warrior, that my son may be a merchant - and his son may be a poet. — Diana Gabaldon

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind. — Edmund Wilson

Paint in blue and black ... sometimes gray - the colors of night - occasionally I surprise you with a mustard yellow, but then, I am a poet ... — John Geddes

I wanted to be a Poet and a Poem, and now am neither, — A.S. Byatt

If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.' — Philip Larkin

I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it — Marianne Moore

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds. — Michael Faraday

I'm not a poet and I'm not a nature lover and I'm not an Anarchist. I am, thank God, absolutely nothing. — Nescio

I wait on my fix:
I am a poetry junkie. — Charles Bukowski

It's wonderful to know that the power to define who I am rests solely with me. If I decide I am an artist, or a poet, a teacher or a writer then I AM. — Renae A. Sauter

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. — Philip Levine

I am a black woman poet and I sound like one. — Lucille Clifton

No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet. — Claude Monet

I am the poet with scaring words and blurred letters. I do not know if my poetry is a blessing or a curse. — Doutor Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

The poets get a quizzical ahem. They reflect time, I am the very ticking. — Roy Fuller

The orange blossom would have scarcely withered on the grave', as a poet might have said. But I am not poet. I am only a very conscientious recorder. — Vladimir Nabokov

The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply an 'artist.' All of life will be open to him. — Allan Kaprow

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist. — Jose Saramago

I have decided, it is fruitless. For I am no longer sure of anything concerning my existance. A philosopher is a dead poet and a dying theologian. — Roger Zelazny

I am a poet. Words are my currency. — Lynn Cullen

Then you are a poet?' she asked, fingering the flyer in her pocket.
'No not at all,' he waved his hand. 'I am merely a character in a poem. — Karen Tei Yamashita

If told I am a bad poet, I smile; but if told I am a poor scholar, I reach for my heaviest dictionary. — Vladimir Nabokov

If I am not mistaken, it was a British poet who said that 'no one is properly dressed unless he wears a smile.' — Sukarno

If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET. — Countee Cullen

I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet. — Aristide Maillol

Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it. — Elizabeth Bear

I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not. — Frank O'Hara

I am a poet
writing frenetic free verse
I am pretentious — Michael H. Hanson

I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet ... — Leni Riefenstahl

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet. — John Quincy Adams

I am merely a poet dying far from home. — Dan Simmons

I am a butterfly poet
birthed from pain
flying with the freedom
of my verses. — Susie Clevenger

I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets. — Erica Jong

I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible. — Audre Lorde

I guess you're right - I am a priest - I offer sacrifices - so take this line, I want you to have something of mine ... — John Geddes

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

Another lover hits the universe. The circle is broken. But with death comes rebirth. And like all lovers and sad people, I am a poet. — Allen Ginsberg

I am a writer because I write, an author because I create, a poet because the words are in my soul. — Wesley D. Gray

I am not just a lesbian. I am not just a poet. I am not just a mother. Honor the complexity of your vision and yourselves. — Audre Lorde

As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry. — June Jordan

I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes. — Khalil Gibran

I am a revolutionary, so my son can be a farmer, so his son can be a poet. — John Adams

You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It's only that. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

I am a poet in deeds--not often in words. — Ian Fleming

I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet. I believe that I will return. Poets always return in flesh or on paper. — Joseph Brodsky