I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.
PoemsJaime Gil de BiedmaComment
Jaime Gil de Biedma y Alba was a Spanish post-Civil War poet. He was born in Nava de la Asunción on November 13, 1929. He stopped writing poetry some ten years before his death.
I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.
PoemsJaime Gil de Biedma