Amount Quote by Erica Jong

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

— Philip Levine

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

— Elizabeth Edwards

My advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world -…

— e. e. cummings

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

— Margaret Atwood

There are poets and there are grownups.

— Jean Cocteau

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity

— James Russell Lowell

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

— John Ciardi

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

— Allison Joseph

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

— Ama Ata Aidoo

My poems are certainly in the lyric tradition, but perhaps a reader can tell me more precisely who I am as a poet. How…

— Connie Wanek

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

— Jack Prelutsky