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Since I was 14, I wanted to make music, but I think I would also have made a good policeman. When I was eight,…

— Calvin Harris

I was nine when I first knew I wanted to be a writer, in particular, a poet.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I wrote my first rhymes around 8th grade. After serving a year in juvenile detention, I decided to pursue my career as an artist.

— Yukmouth

I always wanted to be a writer. I was writing poetry when I was 6.

— Peter Heller

I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to…

— Christopher Koch

When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class. I was encouraged…

— Eugene Ionesco

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

— Wislawa Szymborska

I started writing songs when I was eight.

— Wiz Khalifa

I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.

— Margaret Atwood

I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was…

— Edward Albee

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.

— Rick Springfield