If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.
Every dude in your high school wasn't striving to be the best poet because then he'd get all the girls, right? But you could imagine a society in which that were the case.
Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.
Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, 'Poetry Man' wouldn't have been my first choice.
I'd kill to be a poet.
I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.
If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.
One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!
I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.