Brother Quote by Marilynne Robinson

I thought I was going to be a poet when I was in college, but then I found out I was poor so I…

— Josh Lieb

My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.

— Natasha Trethewey

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

— Edward Hirsch

All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.

— Caio Fonseca

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

— Jaime Gil de Biedma

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

— Wislawa Szymborska

The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not…

— Edward Hirsch

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

For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my…

— Laurence Housman

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

— Peter Heller

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

— Philip Levine

My brother went on to have a long and sordid career.

— Darrell Issa