A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.