Black Quote by Mary Karr

In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic affectations,…

— Anthony Bourdain

I would read the Shel Silverstein poems, Dr. Seuss, and I noticed early on that poetry was something that just stuck in my head…

— Taylor Swift

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

I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that.

— Tanya Saracho

Slowly I would get to pen and paper, Make my poems for others unseen and unborn. In the day I would be reminded of…

— Muriel Rukeyser

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

I'd always vaguely expected to outgrow my limitations. One day, I'd stop twisting my hair, and wearing running shoes all the time, and eating…

— Gretchen Rubin

I also could see myself as a stand-up comedian, a fashion designer (for people of all sizes), a hairdresser, an earnest and eventually burnt-out…

— Denise Duhamel

I think it's better if you write poems that look like you.

— Richard Hugo

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

— Walter Kirn

Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.

— Eileen Myles

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.

— Rita Dove