Age Quote by Christopher Koch

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

— Ama Ata Aidoo

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

— Margaret Atwood

At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in…

— Eavan Boland

I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to…

— Christopher Koch

I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat.

— Paul Engle

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

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

— Elizabeth Edwards

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

— Peter Heller

When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many,…

— Margaret Atwood

It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.

— Pablo Neruda

Growing up as a kid, I took creative writing classes, and I was always into poetry.

— Ivan Moody

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