There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
I think that an artist should be a skilled craftsman.
Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.
I am not an artist. I am a craftsman.