Birth Quote by Hector Hugh Munro

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 want to be a poet, from head to toe, living and dying by poetry.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring…

— Sue Townsend

I was born not to be a poet myself, but to be the instrument of the very poet that has always been inside me.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

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

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

— Robert Graves

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

— Jaime Gil de Biedma

I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.

— Patti Smith

I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind.

— Christina Aguilera

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

— Mark Nepo

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

— Robert Frost

We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.

— Friedrich Nietzsche