Atmosphere Quote by Walter Kirn

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 wanted to be a poet. I had a really romantic idea about what that would mean. My parents knew some poets, and I…

— Lena Dunham

I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history,…

— Peter Ackroyd

I wanted to be a poet. I wrote from ages 15 to 22, but I left it because I discovered, and fell in love with, cinema.

— Sebastian Lelio

I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and breathing people…

— Denise Duhamel

I've always wanted to be a poet at the beginning. I would look at my grandparents' books and my parents' books. And in my…

— Mark Leyner

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

— Yusef Komunyakaa

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

— Ivan Moody

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

— Peter Heller

I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that…

— Grace Cavalieri

I was the kind of person who knew what he wanted to do; I wanted to write, I wanted not to be in school,…

— Neil Gaiman

I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I wanted to be a poem.

— Jaime Gil de Biedma