"Interview with a Poet."
You are a poet?
Yes, I am.
How do you know?
[LAUGHTER] I have written a poem.
[LAUGHTER]
When you wrote the poem it means you were a poet.
But now?
I shall write another poem someday.
Then you may be again a poet.
But how will you know that it really is a poem.
It will be just like the last one.
[LAUGHTER]
In that case, it will certainly not be a poem.
A poem exists only once it cannot be the same again.
I mean it will be just as good.
But you cannot mean that.
The goodness of a poem exists only once
and does not depend on you but on circumstances.
I imagine the circumstances will be the same.
If that is your opinion, you never were a poet
and never will be.
Why then do you think you are a poet?
Well, I really do not know.
And, who are you?
[LAUGHTER]
[APPLAUSE]