Rainer Maria Rilke was admittedly not a Dockers tagger, but a sort of European equivalent: a German poet - in many respects, a charlatan masquerading as a genius who turned out to be a genius.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
We reserve the term 'genius' for people who are creative, who are innovators, who think in ways that are entirely new. In the Middle Ages, the term 'genius' was reserved for people with the best memories. That is telling.
The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.
The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.
A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.
I always wanted to be known as a songwriter and not just a songbird.
Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.
Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.
I'm a big fan of the poet Mary Jo Salter, and although she doesn't need to be discovered at all - she's widely admired and anthologized and extremely accomplished - I wish she were a household name.