If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obsessed by Making.
Source: Foreword to is 5 (1926).
-- e e cummings, (Oct 14 1894-1962), US poet, novelist; He is well known for his eccentric language and typography; wrote Tulips are Chimneys, 1923 and the autobiographical The Enormous Room, 1922.