an old meme, covering "ser poeta" (portuguese):

To be a poet is to be taller, to be larger

Than men. To bite like others kiss.

It is to be a beggar and to give like you are king

of the kingdom of brief and ever-lasting pain.

It is to have a thousand wishes, splendor

And not even know what you desire.

It is to have here inside a star, a flame.

It is to have the condor’s talons and wings.

It is to be hungry, to thirst for the infinite.

The gold and satin mornings like an antique helmet;

It is to condense the world into a single cry,

And it is to love you, even so, desperately.

You are the soul, the blood, and the life in me

And I tell it to everyone through my song.

https://circumferencemag.com/to-condense-the-world-into-a-single-cry/