Poet Quote by Celeste Ng

I wanted to be a poet. I had a really romantic idea about what that would mean. My parents knew some poets, and I…

— Lena Dunham

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

— Jaime Gil de Biedma

I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were poems.

— Norman Lock

I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history,…

— Peter Ackroyd

At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

— Walter Kirn

I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and breathing people…

— Denise Duhamel

I thought originally when I was in school and I wanted to be a poet, I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

— Billy Collins

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

— Peter Heller

I started out wanting to write great poems, then wanting to discover true poems. Now, I want to be the poem.

— Mark Nepo

I thought I was going to be a poet when I was in college, but then I found out I was poor so I…

— Josh Lieb

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be…

— Alice Walker

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