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I write, but I don't write poetry. I don't rhyme or anything like that.

— Channing Tatum

I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither here nor…

— Victoria Chang

Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.

— Kathleen Raine

As I get older, I recognize that my thinking about poetry may or may not have anything actively to do with my actual work…

— Robert Creeley

Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.

— Roger McGough

I try to presume that no one is interested in me. And I think experience bears that out. No one's interested in the experiences…

— Billy Collins

“If you haven't the creative urge, or if it is fulfilled elsehow, then, although you may be a skilled craftsman, writing the most delightful…

— Christopher Milne

If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.

— Mary Webb

I'm a struggling poet. I've never shown my work to anyone. I write it all for myself and I'm not interested in showing it…

— Kunal Kapoor

In truth, I'm still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I'd rather say, I make poems.

— Henri Cole

You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a…

— Bob Dylan

Poetry has always been this completely alien art to me. I am the sort of bloke who, when he gets into things, generally tries…

— Frank Skinner