Acknowledge Quote by Lena Dunham

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

At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

— Walter Kirn

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

— Jaime Gil de Biedma

I always wanted to be a writer. I was writing poetry when I was 6.

— Peter Heller

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

I wanted to be a poet. I wrote from ages 15 to 22, but I left it because I discovered, and fell in love with, cinema.

— Sebastian Lelio

I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were poems.

— Norman Lock

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

— Ama Ata Aidoo

I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and breathing people…

— Denise Duhamel

I've always wanted to be a poet at the beginning. I would look at my grandparents' books and my parents' books. And in my…

— Mark Leyner

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even…

— Ama Ata Aidoo

Growing up as a kid, I took creative writing classes, and I was always into poetry.

— Ivan Moody