Knew Quote by Tim Key

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 earning a living as a poet rather early on.

— Wislawa Szymborska

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 thought originally when I was in school and I wanted to be a poet, I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

— Billy Collins

People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.

— Bayard Taylor

My brother told me I was going to be a poet. I had a good brother. He did a lot of good brotherly work.

— Marilynne Robinson

I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my passion with…

— Arthur Smith

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

— Anonymous

I earn more than I thought I would when I became a poet.

— Anonymous

I'm not a poet. I wish I was a poet but I'm not. I'm a playwright. And so I have a different set of…

— Tony Kushner

However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published.…

— Helen Dunmore

I was pushing for a career in poetry and of course the received wisdom was that you would never make a living at it.

— John Cooper Clarke