To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
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It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.
I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
I thought that if one wanted to be a writer, one had to write novels because I didn't know that one could be a poet.
I chose poetry. Actually, poetry chose me.
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 made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will.
I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.
I'd kill to be a poet.
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