I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer.
I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good poems.
Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.
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.
I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.
I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.
Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem.
I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.
It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.