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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 started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will.

I began as a journalist for my pocketbook and a poet for my soul.

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've always been a 'write first' artist: the drawings are always in service of the writing.

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.

I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.