Before Quote by Jessica White

I'm a poet.

— Rajon Rondo

I'm a poet, first and foremost as a writer. That's who I am. That's what I'm most comfortable writing.

— Dante Basco

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

— Wislawa Szymborska

There are many poets that use as my models. In my first book of poems, I had several for the "Sleepwalkers," I had several…

— Edward Hirsch

I've always considered myself a poet in everything that I do, whether it's photography or movie-making.

— Gerard Malanga

I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet.

— Aristide Maillol

I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

— Jack Prelutsky

I started with the modeling.

— Joanna Krupa

I will always be an artist first. I see my writing as an extension of my illustrating.

— Floyd Cooper

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've always been a 'write first' artist: the drawings are always in service of the writing.

— Jeffrey Brown

I really came to literature through poetry.

— Cheryl Strayed