Average Quote by Charles Bukowski

You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.

— Erica Jong

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

— Derek Walcott

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

— Philip Levine

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

— Elizabeth Edwards

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

— Neil Gaiman

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.

— Marguerite Young

Probably when I was about 16 or 17 I started writing. I wouldn't call it poetry, even though I've referred to it as poetry…

— Aldous Harding

I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry.

— Jonas Mekas

Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.

— Allison Joseph

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

— Margaret Atwood

I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.

— John Darnielle

I started writing when was probably 15 or 16. I got put on the stage when I was 14 or 13.

— Skip Marley