Андрей Тарковский, "A poet has the imagination and psychology of a child"

A poet has the imagination and psychology of a child, for his impressions of the world are immediate, however profound his ideas about the world may be. Of course one may say of a child, too, that he is philosopher, but only in some very relative sense. And art flies in the face of philosophical concepts. The poet does not use 'description' of the world; he himself has a hand in its creation.

Andrey Tarkovsky, "Sculpting in Time", chapter II "Art - a yearning for the ideal"