Miserable Quote by Billy Collins

I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

— Billy Collins

I really wanted to be a poet - until I realized that I really didn't have what it took to be a poet.

— Celeste Ng

I'm not a poet. I wish I was a poet but I'm not. I'm a playwright. And so I have a different set of…

— Tony Kushner

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by…

— Nicholson Baker

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

— Ama Ata Aidoo

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

— Yusef Komunyakaa

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good…

— Edward Hirsch

I was a pretty happy kid, I had to fake it. I had to get into this miserable character before I wrote poems.

— Billy Collins

I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.

— Carol Ann Duffy

“I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen, and so I swung into action and wrote a poem, and it was miserable, for…

— William Matthews

I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I wanted to be a poem.

— Jaime Gil de Biedma

I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.

— Edward Hirsch