After high school Quote by Nick Flynn

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 was an English major, and I always wrote poems.

— Mat Kearney

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

— Wislawa Szymborska

It wasn't until I was named Youth Poet Laureate of L.A. in high school though that I officially began calling myself a poet. I…

— Amanda Gorman

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

— Edward Hirsch

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

— Peter Heller

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

— Ivan Moody

Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.

— Matt de la Pena

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

— Frederick Busch

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

— Philip Levine