“It is even in
prose, I am a real poet. My poem
is finished and I haven't mentioned
orange yet It's twelve poems, I call
it oranges.”
Why I Am Not a Painter (l. 24-28) (1976).
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American poet, art critic and writer 1926–1966Related quotes
undated quote about his own poetry; in ' Objects Are What We Aren't' https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/02/26/objects-are-what-we-arent/, by Andy Battaglia; The Parish Review, February 26, 2015

“a poem is a naked person... some people say that I am a poet”
Liner notes http://bobdylan.com/linernotes/bringing.html, Bringing It All Back Home (1965)

Lecture notes of 1858, quoted in The Life and Letters of Faraday (1870) by Bence Jones, Vol. 2, p. 403

Non-Fiction, Joysprick: An Introduction to the Language of James Joyce (1973)
Interview with Irmeline Lebeer, in 'Recent Work', Princeton Art Museum, 1973 pp. 10-13
after 1970
Interview with Lidia Vianu http://lidiavianu.scriptmania.com/Michael%20Hamburger.htm

“I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.”

What is a Poem - Endword - Selected Poems (1926)