Fortunate Quote by Sarah Kay

I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than…

— Dana Goodyear

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

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

— Donald Hall

I should be writing a poem every morning but I'm not.

— Tony D'Souza

I've written poetry most of my life.

— Julia Michaels

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 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 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 started out wanting to write great poems, then wanting to discover true poems. Now, I want to be the poem.

— Mark Nepo

If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!

— Jack Gleeson

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

— Philip Levine

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