Awful Quote by Sidney Lanier

I've discovered my vocation. I want to be a writer.

— Paulo Coelho

Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who…

— Andrew Motion

I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.

— Tori Amos

I try to transmit emotion and soul in my voice, but my true passion has always been writing. I feel more like a writer…

— Romeo Santos

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

— Frederick Busch

I write poetry in order to live more fully.

— Judith Rodriguez

If there is anything unique about my writing it is the way that I combine poetry and prose, not just on the level of…

— Richard Grossman

Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing - I suppose that's what a vocation means - at times a torment, a bad…

— Robert Lowell

I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.

— May Sarton

I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.

— Cate Marvin

I've written poetry most of my life.

— Julia Michaels