I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.

The line reads as a candid, even grandiose confession of the poet’s hunger for recognition—an urge not merely to be praised for craft, but to be revered as someone who has touched the divine. “Bow” signals a quasi-religious posture toward the artist, while “seen the presence of the creator” frames poetic vision as a form of revelation. In a Ginsbergian register, this can be taken both as critique and self-exposure: the poet admits the ego’s desire for sanctification, yet also asserts a Beat-era belief that heightened perception (through mysticism, prophecy, or altered consciousness) can disclose sacred reality in ordinary life. The quote dramatizes the tension between spiritual aspiration and personal vanity.