Late Quote by John D'Agata

I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.

— Paloma Elsesser

I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

— David Duchovny

I wrote poetry for seven or eight years, maybe longer, before I could say I was a poet. If people asked, I'd say I…

— Stephen Dunn

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 was writing since I can remember - I just didn't know it was poetry yet, or that writing could be a career.

— Amanda Gorman

I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels.…

— Ben Okri

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by…

— Nicholson Baker

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

— Anonymous

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

— Gerard Malanga

I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I always, always…

— Blake Jenner

I went to school in California, at Stanford when I was seventeen, and I lived in San Francisco until I was twenty-three, and then…

— Jenny Zhang