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I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

— Elizabeth Edwards

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

— Maxine Kumin

I grew up in a place in which, if you learned poetry, you shouted it out. Boys would scream it out and perform it…

— Derek Walcott

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

— Edmund Wilson

I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never…

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people.

— Jamila Woods

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

— Margaret Atwood

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

— Stephen Colbert

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

— Rick Springfield

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

— Martin Gore

I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that.

— Tanya Saracho

I'm always glad that other people are way smarter about my poems than I am.

— Shane McCrae