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I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple…

— Bo Burnham

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart.

— Eminem

I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

— James Schuyler

I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of…

— John Updike

I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which…

— Jesmyn Ward

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

— Muhammad Iqbal

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

— Michael Helm

These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out.

— Sara Genn

I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.

— Paloma Elsesser

I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.

— Michel de Montaigne

I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

— Naveen Andrews