Genes Quote by Kit Harington

If there's a gene, I got it from my ma. Her writing has this effortless quality.

— John Cooper Clarke

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

— B. F. Skinner

Poets are born, not made

— American Proverb

I think I have bad genes that came from my mother.

— Brenda Fricker

As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.

— Grace Cavalieri

A parent, unlike a poet, is not born - he is made.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all.

— Petra Haden

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists…

— Allen Tate

I first heard about 'genes' when I was six years old. At dinner one night, I heard my mom tell my sister, 'It's in…

— Anne Wojcicki

Poets, I think, are born. You can't teach it. It's genetic - the circumstances of how you were raised... and there's probably some Irish…

— Rodney Crowell

I don't like poems that invent memories, I have enough of my own.

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

My family are all storytellers, and I think I inherited a lot more of that gene than other people in my family. I guess…

— John C. Reilly